Histologic analysis of tissue after failed cartilage repair procedures
Nehrer S;Spector M;Minas T;;
Clinical orthopaedics and related research1999pp. -
231
s1999clinicalhistologic
Abstract
This study evaluated the composition of reparative tissue retrieved during revision surgery from full thickness chondral defects in 18 patients in whom abrasion arthroplasty (n = 12), grafting of perichondrial flaps (n = 4), and periosteal patching augmented by autologous chondrocyte implantation in …