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Clinical failure was defined as patients\u2019 having osteochondral transplantation or an American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) Ankle-Hindfoot Scale score less than 80. Linear regression analysis and the Kaplan-Meier method were used to identify optimal cutoff values of defect size.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Eight ankles (6.7%) required osteochondral transplantation, and 22 ankles (18.4%) were considered failures because of AOFAS scores less than 80, which indicated fair or poor results. Linear regression analysis showed a high prognostic significance of defect area and suggested a cutoff defect size of 150 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      for the optimum identification of poor clinical outcomes ( P &lt; .001). Only 10 of 95 ankles (10.5%) with a defect area &lt;150 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      showed clinical failure, whereas in patients with an area \u2265150 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      , the clinical failure rate was significantly higher (80%, 20\/25). There was no association between outcome and the patient\u2019s age, duration of symptoms, trauma, associated lesions, and location of lesions ( P &gt; .05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Initial defect size is an important and easily obtainable prognostic factor in osteochondral lesions of the talus and so may serve as a basis for preoperative surgical decisions. A cutoff point exists regarding the risk of clinical failure at a defect area of approximately 150 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      as calculated from magnetic resonance imaging.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0363546509335765","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,8,5]],"date-time":"2009-08-05T20:12:42Z","timestamp":1249503162000},"page":"1974-1980","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":416,"title":["Osteochondral Lesion of the Talus"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Woo Jin","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, CHA University, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and the"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kwan Kyu","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South 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