Evaluation of cartilage repair tissue after matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte transplantation using a hyaluronic-based or a collagen-based scaffold with morphological MOCART scoring and biochemical T2 mapping: Preliminary results

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 934-942

  Hannes Welsch, Goetz ^a,b   Mamisch, Tallal Charles ^a,c   Zak, Lukas ^a   Blanke, Matthias ^b   Olk, Alexander ^b   Marlovits, Stefan ^c   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cartilage repair; MACI; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Magnetic resonance observation of cartilage repair tissue (MOCART); Matrix associated autologous chondrocyte transplantation (MACT); Scaffold; T2 mapping

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE CELL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHONDROCYTES; COHORT STUDIES; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; KNEE JOINT; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952733723     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509354971     Document Type: Article

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