Cartilage Restoration Practical Clinical Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Farr, Jack (Editor), Gomoll, Andreas H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Rheumatology.; Orthopedics.; Sports medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Sports Medicine.

Attempting to bridge the gap between the science and art of cartilage restoration, Cartilage Restoration: Practical Clinical Applications combines an overview of clinical research and methodologies with clinical cases to help guide the orthopedic treatment and care of patients presenting with cartil...

Table of Contents:

• Learning from the Evolution of Cartilage Restoration
• The Osteochondral Unit
• Imaging of Articular Cartilage
• General Treatment Algorithm for Cartilage Defects
• Tibiofemoral Malalignment
• Tibiofemoral Patholaxity
• Patellofemoral Considerations: Pain, Instability, Chondrosis and Alignment
• Meniscal Considerations in Cartilage Surgery
• Approaching Complex Cases
• Debridement and Marrow Stimulation
• Osteochondral Autograft Transfer
• Osteochondral Allograft
• Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI)
• Arthroscopic MACI
• Particulated/Minced Cartilage
• Osteotomy for Tibiofemoral Malalignment
• Patellofemoral Osteotomies
• Meniscal Transplantation Techniques
• Alternatives to Meniscus Transplantation Outside the United States.