A retrospective study on factors predictive of operative intervention in symptomatic accessory navicular.

J Child Orthop · 2019 · PMC6376442 · PMID 30838083

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Female patients reported symptoms at a younger age (11.7 years; sd 2.6) when compared with male patients (12.8 years; sd 2.0) at a rate that approached significance (p = 0.06) while also presenting at an earlier age (12.5 years; sd 2.3), when compared with male patients (13.3 years; sd 1.9), however, this difference was not significant (p = 0.16) ( Table 2 ).

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