Characterization of Synovial Cytokine Patterns in Bucket-Handle and Posterior Horn Meniscal Tears

Table 2

Effects of time from trauma, chondral damage, and type of lesion on the cytokine levels of medial meniscal tears.

Cytokine	Time from trauma ( value)	Chondral damage ( value)	Type of lesion (BH-PH) ( value)
IL-6	0.913	0.309	0.350
IL-8	0.860	0.789	0.988
TNF-α	0.364	0.398	0.031
IL-10	0.807	0.152	0.925
IL-1β	0.344	0.151	0.028

The influence of time from trauma and type of lesion on cytokine levels was assessed with the Mann-Whitney -test, whereas the influence of chondral damage was assessed with the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test. The table shows the value of the tests. for the BH vs. PH group.