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However, clinical characteristics of TL shortening in osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) has not been investigated. Therefore, we studied whether TL changes have clinicopathological values in ONFH.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The TL in the synovial tissues of 36 ONFH and 127 control patients (femoral neck fracture) was examined by quantitative real-time PCR as relative length, \u0394 Ct value. In addition, the correlation between TL and clinical features of ONFH and controls was analyzed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The average TL in the femoral tissues was 1.46\u2009\u00b1\u20093.12 (standard deviation). The average TL in the ONFH and control tissues was 1.92\u2009\u00b1\u20094.11 and 1.34\u2009\u00b1\u20092.78, respectively, however, the difference was absent (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.324). Furthermore, a shorter TL was tended to be associated with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (100% vs. 61.5%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.073); however, the association was not statistically significant.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this study, we demonstrated that there is no association between the TL and clinicopathologic characteristics of ONFH patients. 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