Background: In patients with osteoarthritis, a detailed assessment of degenerative cartilage disease ... of three months later, arthroscopic grading of the articular surfaces was performed.
Arthroscopy provides ... we can get into the knee, we can trim out loose tissue, we can remove torn edges of the meniscus, we can smooth cartilage, we can treat arthritis, we can remove loose ...
Purpose Investigate pain and function outcomes following hip arthroscopy with and without femoral osteoplasty in individuals with intra-articular hip pathology ... rate compares favourably with that ...
Horizontal cleavage tears can be asymptomatic and unrelated to knee symptoms. Degenerative tears are complex and linked with articular cartilage ... not correlate with arthroscopy findings ...
One surgical technique for locating and treating problems with the knee joint is knee arthroscopy. An arthroscope, a tiny camera, is inserted into the knee by the surgeon after making a tiny incision.
Arthroscopic ... articular surface results in better outcomes after total knee arthroplasty. Mesenchymal stem cell implantation provides short-term clinical improvement and satisfactory cartilage ...
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The OATS Procedure
OATS is one technique of several used to treat this problem ... OATS procedure to another knee procedure called microfracture treatment for isolated articular cartilage defects.