“…In case of missing MSTS score standard deviations or baseline characteristics, we contacted the corresponding authors; of the contacted authors of 19 studies [1,6,9,12,16,17,19,25,27,31,36,43,45,47,50,56,[60][61][62], 13 replied [1,6,9,16,17,27,31,36,43,45,50,56,61] and seven were able to provide us with the requested additional data [6,9,17,27,36,45,56]. We regarded autoclaved autograft and allograft bone combined with a prosthesis as allograft-prosthesis composites.…”