Erschienen in:
01.04.2010 | Editorial
The subchondral bone: a new frontier in articular cartilage repair
verfasst von:
Henning Madry
Erschienen in:
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
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Ausgabe 4/2010
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Excerpt
In the past decades, considerable advances have been made to treat defects of the articular cartilage. Yet the problem of lesions that extend deep in the underlying subchondral bone has not received adequate attention. Subchondral bone damage is mainly associated with four individual etiologies, including traumatic osteochondral fracture, osteochondritis dissecans, osteonecrosis, and osteoarthritis. It is largely because of these very different origins of osteochondral defects that their treatment remains complicated. …