These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Surgery on articular cartilage: from debridement to tissue engineering].
    Author: Lind M, Vinther MU, Larsen AS, Jensen SK, Kristensen G.
    Journal: Ugeskr Laeger; 2005 Oct 03; 167(40):3763-7. PubMed ID: 16221389.
    Abstract:
    Articular cartilage is a complex tissue with a limited endogenous repair capacity. Surgical strategies to stimulate repair of damaged cartilage are presently evolving extensively. New techniques based on tissue-engineering principles with cultured cells and scaffolds are challenging established techniques based on generating a repair response from the bone marrow. This paper reviews treatments such as debridement, marrow-stimulating techniques, osteochondral transplantation and autologous chondrocyte transplantation. Debridement and marrow stimulation can provide significant relief of symptoms. Recently, randomized studies have uncovered some of the clinical effects of the new biotechnology-based surgical methods. However, no significant advances over the established surgical techniques have been developed.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]