Tamoxifen Prevents Peritendinous Adhesions: A Preliminary Report

Table 4

Macroscopic evaluation of adhesion scores among the groups. Distribution of the animals regarding their adhesion scores. You can notice that slight adhesion was established in group 4 which is similar with the control group. On the contrary, groups 2 and 3 have adhesions ranged between slight and severe (G1CON: group 1 control; G1SHAM: group 1 sham).

	No adhesion	Slight adhesion	Moderate adhesion	Severe adhesion
G1CON		9 (82%)	2 (18%)
G1SHAM	11 (100%)
Group 2		4 (36%)	5 (45%)	2 (19%)
Group 3		2 (18%)	7 (64%)	2 (18%)
Group 4	1 (9%)	10 (91%)