Three-dimensional reconstruction under computed tomography and myopectineal orifice measurement under laparoscopy for quality control of inguinal hernia treatment

Table 4 The influence of sex, age, and body mass index on the size of the myopubic foramen, mean ± SD

	Intraoperative AC	Intraoperative BD	Preoperative AC	Preoperative BD	MPO area
Gender
Male (n = 64)	7.09 ± 0.47	6.35 ± 0.61	7.25 ± 0.46	6.13 ± 0.41	19.59 ± 3.12
Female (n = 10)	6.85 ± 0.49	5.83 ± 0.35	6.92 ± 0.46	6.03 ± 0.37	19.17 ± 4.64
t	1.324	2.333	2.042	0.667	0.278
P	0.192	0.024a	0.045a	0.507	0.786
Age
< 60 (n = 34)	7.05 ± 0.34	6.36 ± 0.60	7.18 ± 0.46	6.14 ± 0.37	20.07 ± 3.31
≥ 60 (n = 40)	7.06 ± 0.59	6.17 ± 0.61	7.22 ± 0.49	6.09 ± 0.43	19.08 ± 3.31
t	-0.088	1.110	-0.407	0.554	1.274
P	0.930	0.272	0.685	0.582	0.207
BMI
≤ 24 (n = 43)	6.97 ± 0.40	6.20 ± 0.60	7.17 ± 0.43	6.10 ± 0.36	19.40 ± 3.34
> 24 (n = 30)	7.17 ± 0.55	6.36 ± 0.62	7.24 ± 0.54	6.13 ± 0.47	19.75 ± 3.40
t	-1.536	-0.898	-0.542	-0.286	-0.432
P	0.131	0.374	0.590	0.775	0.667

^aP < 0.05.

BMI: Body mass index; AC: Distance between point A and point C, the length of the myopectineal orifice; BD: Distance between point B and point D, the width of the myopectineal orifice; MPO: Myopectineal orifice.