Table 1 Thickness of the hyaline cartilage both in the central force-bearing and the peripheral portion of the metacarpal heads both in the joints presenting with osteophytes and the contralateral corresponding ones without osteophytes
Affected side – CR evidence of osteophytes and no JSN | Unaffected side – CR evidence of neither osteophytes nor JSN | Side-by-side comparison | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CR KLS score | US SQ cartilage score20 | HCT in the central portion | HCT in the peripheral portion | HCT within-difference | CR KLS score | US SQ cartilage score20 | HCT in the central portion | HCT in the peripheral portion | HCT within-difference | HCT between-difference – central portion | HCT between-difference – peripheral portion | |
Pt#1 | 1 | 0 | 0.89 | 1.06 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0.96 | 0.94 | 0.02 | -0.07 | 0.12 |
Pt#2 | 1 | 0 | 0.70 | 0.85 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.65 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.20 |
Pt#2 | 2 | 1 | 0.34 | 0.47 | 0.13 | 0 | 1 | 0.44 | 0.42 | 0.02 | -0.1 | 0.05 |
Pt#3 | 1 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.84 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 | 0.68 | 0.66 | 0.02 | -0.06 | 0.18 |
Pt#3 | 1 | 1 | 0.59 | 0.79 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 | 0.71 | 0.70 | 0.01 | -0.12 | 0.09 |
Pt#4 | 1 | 0 | 0.79 | 1.00 | 0.21 | 0 | 0 | 0.74 | 0.73 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.27 |
Pt#4 | 2 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.81 | 0.19 | 0 | 1 | 0.62 | 0.64 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.17 |
Pt#5 | 1 | 1 | 0.68 | 0.79 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.11 |
Pt#5 | 1 | 0 | 0.63 | 0.73 | 0.10 | 0 | 1 | 0.66 | 0.64 | 0.02 | -0.03 | 0.09 |
Pt#5 | 2 | 1 | 0.59 | 0.71 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.60 | 0.02 | -0.03 | 0.11 |
Pt#6 | 1 | 1 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.06 |
Pt#6 | 1 | 0 | 0.65 | 0.79 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.01 | -0.01 | 0.14 |
Pt#7 | 1 | 1 | 0.68 | 0.79 | 0.11 | 0 | 1 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.11 |
Pt#8 | 1 | 1 | 0.68 | 0.79 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.11 |
Pt#9 | 1 | 0 | 0.64 | 0.73 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.10 |
Pt#10 | 1 | 0 | 0.70 | 0.80 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0.68 | 0.66 | -0.02 | 0.02 | 0.14 |
Pt#10 | 1 | 1 | 0.68 | 0.77 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.09 |
Pt#10 | 1 | 0 | 0.66 | 0.76 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.64 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.12 |
Pt#11 | 1 | 0 | 0.65 | 0.76 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.11 |
Pt#12 | 1 | 1 | 0.63 | 0.71 | 0.08 | 0 | 1 | 0.65 | 0.65 | 0 | -0.02 | 0.06 |
Pt#13 | 1 | 0 | 0.59 | 0.67 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.61 | -0.01 | -0.03 | 0.06 |
Pt#14 | 1 | 1 | 0.71 | 0.8 | 0.09 | 0 | 1 | 0.69 | 0.70 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.10 |
Pt#14 | 1 | 1 | 0.65 | 0.75 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0.64 | 0.67 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.08 |
Mean value | / | / | 0.65 | 0.78 | 0.13 | / | / | 0.66 | 0.66 | 0.01 | -0.01 | 0.12 |