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Supporting information

S1 Fig. A funnel plot of VAS, WOMAC, Lequesne, IKDC, Lysholm, and Tegner scores (tif)
generated by Review Manager Version 5.0.
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S2 Fig. Language edit certification (tif).
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S1 File. PRISMA 2009 checklist.
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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the Scientific Research Subject of the Heilongjiang Province
Health Department (2012–301). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and
analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MY.
Data curation: LY LL.
Formal analysis: LB.
Funding acquisition: CL.
Investigation: LY LL.

Methodology: LY LL.
Project administration: CL.
Resources: ST.
Software: LY LL.
Supervision: CL.

Validation: ST.
Visualization: LY.
Writing – original draft: MY.
Writing – review & editing: CL.

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