Table 2: Variations in mm in the femoral cortex at levels A, B and C and the femoral diameter in the hips included in the follow-up study, mean +standard deviation, and correlations of cortical bone thickness at different levels and independent variables, p value.

- Post-operative Last
follow-up
Age + Stem+ Paprosky [8]+ Gender
++
Age
+++
Stem
+++
Paprosky [8] +++ Gender+++
Level A - - - - - - - - - -
Medial cortex 7.5 + 4.1 8.3 + 4.3 0.237 0.298 0.891 0.060 0.412 0.131 0.617 0.172
Lateral cortex 7.3 + 3.9 7.9 + 5.2 0.558 0.382 0.674 0.326 0.455 0.174 0.791 0.090
Femoral diameter 39.6 + 7.0 40.4 + 7.3 0.933 0.576 0.018* 0.201 0.752 0.967 0.052 0.689
Level B - - - - - - - - - -
Medial cortex 7.3 + 3.5 7.4 + 3.5 0.608 0.310 0.556 0.191 0.706 0.838 0.432 0.033*
Lateral cortex 6.9 + 2.5 7.6 + 3.9 0.642 0.062 0.030* 0.738 0.898 0.233 0.235 0.961
Femoral diameter 33.7 + 5.4 34.9 + 6.0 0.433 0.352 0.020* 0.848 0.577 0.945 0.046* 0.607
Level C - - - - - - - - - -
Medial cortex 7.4 + 3.0 7.7 + 3.3 0.948 0.081 0.396 0.063 0.866 0.450 0.398 0.021*
Lateral cortex 6.2 + 2.3 6.3 + 2.4 0.891 0.095 0.054 0.107 0.946 0.105 0.472 0.106
Femoral diameter 31.9 + 5.0 32.8 + 4.6 0.970 0.860 0.846 0.382 0.769 0.475 0.475 0.117
+Pearson; ++, Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon; +++, ANOVA; * only Statistically significant correlations