Cartilage repair and joint preservation: Medical and surgical treatment options;Knorpelrekonstruktion und gelenkerhalt: Medikamentöse und operative möglichkeiten

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 108, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 669-677

  Madry, Henning ^a,b   Grün, Ulrich Wolfgang ^b   Knutsen, Gunnar ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; DIACEREIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ESTROGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 18; GLUCOSAMINE; HYALURONIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BODY MASS; BONE NECROSIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; KNEE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICROFRACTURE; MOSAICPLASTY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SWELLING; SYNOVECTOMY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE DISEASES; CHONDROITIN; GLUCOSAMINE; HUMANS; JOINTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 81855212582     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: 01722107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2011.0669     Document Type: Review

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