Aims. The aim of this study was to report the outcome of femoral condylar
Cartilage defects of the hip cause significant
pain and may lead to arthritic changes that necessitate hip replacement.
We propose the use of
We used
This study aims to identify the top unanswered research priorities in the field of knee surgery using consensus-based methodology. Initial research questions were generated using an online survey sent to all 680 members of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK). Duplicates were removed and a longlist was generated from this scoping exercise by a panel of 13 experts from across the UK who provided oversight of the process. A modified Delphi process was used to refine the questions and determine a final list. To rank the final list of questions, each question was scored between one (low importance) and ten (high importance) in order to produce the final list.Aims
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Hyaline articular cartilage has been known to
be a troublesome tissue to repair once damaged. Since the introduction
of autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) in 1994, a renewed
interest in the field of cartilage repair with new repair techniques
and the hope for products that are regenerative have blossomed.
This article reviews the basic science structure and function of
articular cartilage, and techniques that are presently available
to effect repair and their expected outcomes.
Articular cartilage repair remains a challenge to surgeons and basic scientists. The field of tissue engineering allows the simultaneous use of material scaffolds, cells and signalling molecules to attempt to modulate the regenerative tissue. This review summarises the research that has been undertaken to date using this approach, with a particular emphasis on those techniques that have been introduced into clinical practice, via in vitro and preclinical studies.