Developmental changes in ACLs and semitendinosus tendons dimensions according to age in children

Table 1 Basic descriptive statistic

	Age of children’s knees (years)	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Mean	Cross-sectional area of ST tendon/femur	0.047	0.0049	0.0062	0.078	0.111	0.082	0.086	0.075	0.088	0.088	0.093
S.D.	Cross-sectional area of ST tendon/femur	0.012	0.018	0.012	0.036	0.026	0.042	0.021	0.014	0.020	0.025	0.029
Mean	Cross-sectional area of ST tendon/tibia	0.046	0.038	0.054	0.067	0.077	0.102	0.082	0.077	0.079	0.084	0.086
S.D.	Cross-sectional area of ST tendon/tibia	0.012	0.009	0.022	0.038	0.036	0.033	0.028	0.014	0.019	0.027	0.030
Mean	ACL gauge	0.341	0.375	0.464	0.453	0.407	0.493	0.447	0.465	0.518	0.482	0.548
S.D.	ACL gauge	0.0065	0.086	0.079	0.136	0.078	0.128	0.095	0.104	0.089	0.106	0.110

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