Management of articular cartilage defects of the knee

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-35

  Redler, Lauren H ^a   Caldwell, Jon Michael ^a   Schulz, Brian M ^a   Levine, William N ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Autologous chondrocyte implantation; Injury; Knee; Matrix associated chondrocyte implantation; Microfracture; Mosaicplasty; Osteochondral allograft transplantation; Osteochondral autologous transplantation; Osteochondral defects; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; HYALURONIC ACID; PROTEOGLYCAN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ABLATION THERAPY; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE REMODELING; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CARTILAGE INJURY; CELL MIGRATION; CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE INJURY; KNEE INSTABILITY; MICROFRACTURE; MOSAICPLASTY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PATELLA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPORT INJURY; SWELLING; TIBIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; KNEE INJURIES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84859837962     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2012.02.1948     Document Type: Article

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