15 April 2024>: Clinical Research
Evaluation of the Interrater Reliability of Sonographic Measurements of Muscle Thickness of 38 Piriformis Muscles in 19 Patients with Piriformis Syndrome
Sibel Caglar 1ABDEG* , Ozden Ozyemisci-Taskiran 2ACDEGDOI: 10.12659/MSM.943720
Med Sci Monit 2024; 30:e943720
Table 3 Individual measurement values of piriformis muscle thickness measurements from different measurement sites in symptomatic and normal sides of patients with piriformis syndrome by each examiner.
Measurement site | Mean thickness of piriformis muscle (mm) mean±SD (min–max) | |||||
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Examiner 1 | Examiner 2 | |||||
Symptomatic | Normal | p | Symptomatic | Normal | p | |
Near greater trochanter | 10.9±2.6 (7.5–17.9) | 10.9±3.2 (6.0–19.1) | 0.414 | 10.7±3.1 (5.5–16.8) | 10.0±2.8 (6.4–15.7) | 0.448 |
Over ilium | 12.0±2.4 (8.5–16.6) | 11.5±2.3 (7.8–16.9) | 0.510 | 12.9±2.9 (7.9–16.6) | 11.8±2.5 (7.9–16.7) | 0.388 |
Near sacrum | 12.6±3.7 (8.0–22.4) | 12.0±2.4 (9.2–16.6) | 0.701 | 13.1±3.4 (8.9–21.8) | 11.7±2.8 (7.5–17.7) | 0.117 |
mm – millimeter; min – minimum; max – maximum; SD – standard deviation. |