Regional Distribution of Articular Cartilage Thickness in the Elbow Joint

Surgical Technique for Articular Cartilage Transplantation to Full- Thickness Cartilage Defects in the Knee Joint

Focal arthritic defects in the knee lead to pain, swelling, and dysfunction. Treatment of the defects has included drilling, abrasion, and grafting. This report describes our surgical technique of autogenous articular cartilage grafting of aLrthritic and traumatic articular cartilage lesions. Articular cartilage grafting can be performed as a single arthroscopic outpatient procedure. The mixtur...

The pattern of ageing of the articular cartilage of the elbow joint.

Articular cartilage paste grafting to full-thickness articular cartilage knee joint lesions: a 2- to 12-year follow-up.

PURPOSE To prospectively assess clinical outcomes and regeneration of osteoarthritic cartilage lesions treated with an articular cartilage paste grafting technique. TYPE OF STUDY Prospective, longitudinal case series. METHODS We treated 125 patients (136 procedures; 34% female, 66% male; mean age, 46 years; range, 17 to 73 years) with an Outerbridge classification of grade IV lesions with a...

The Influence of Articular Cartilage Thickness Reduction on Meniscus Biomechanics

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the biomechanical interaction between meniscus and cartilage in medial compartment knee osteoarthritis. METHODS The finite element method was used to simulate knee joint contact mechanics. Three knee models were created on the basis of knee geometry from the Open Knee project. We reduced the thickness of medial cartilages in the intact knee model by approximately 50% t...

Viscoelastic properties of bovine knee joint articular cartilage: dependency on thickness and loading frequency

BACKGROUND The knee is an incongruent joint predisposed to developing osteoarthritis, with certain regions being more at risk of cartilage degeneration even in non-osteoarthrosed joints.At present it is unknown if knee regions prone to cartilage degeneration have similar storage and/or loss stiffness, and frequency-dependent trends, to other knee joint cartilage. The aim of this study was to de...