1.   The agreement is good up to an incident beam frequency which is ??.

2.   Both these populations reflected negative patient population, but in spite of this the functional results were predominantly good to satisfactory.

3.   The cosmetic result was good to excellent in 80%.

4.   In 86%, the results were good to very good, in 38% satisfactory, and in 6% the results were poor.

5.   The clinical results obtained are good to excellent in more than 90% of the 175 patients.

6.   Pouch function is good to excellent in all surviving patients.

7.   The Lysholm-score was good to excellent in all patients (87??

8.   At the time of follow-up the results concerning pain and function were good to excellent and better than those previously reported for conservative treatment.

9.   Reliability of endurance testing was very good to good for the trunk flexors (ICC?=?0.82) and trunk extensors (ICC?=?0.63).

10.   In those from 40¡ã storage the quality was mostly good to fair, and from 32¡ã the quality was invariably poor to very poor.