Parameters identifying the risk of treatment failure after cartilage repair: a proposed treatment algorithm and pilot study

Conclusions: Microfracture as the primary technique led to the most failures, but because of its simplicity and balanced clinical results, it should be used as the gold standard, especially in younger patients. Open techniques, AMIC, and periosteal transplantation should be reserved as second choice treatments after failure and as a first choice treatment for multiple lesions, larger defects, older patients, and for defects such as osteochondritis dissecans where there is a need for autologous cancellous bone transplantation.
Source: Current Orthopaedic Practice - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Special Focus: Resident Research Award Source Type: research