Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAILEA, Hawaii — Use of acute cartilage autograft may provide a single-stage, low cost and low risk procedure ...

Click here to read the Cover Story, “More treatments expand personalized ankle cartilage repair.”A middle-aged, active patient — the kind who alternates between running along the canals and cycling ...

Feb. 10, 2003 (New Orleans) — Autologous chondrocyte implantation, which has already demonstrated efficacy for treatment of osteochondral defects in the knee, may be equally effective to promote ...

Background Osteochondral lesion of the talus (OLT) is a broad term used to describe an injury or abnormality of the talar articular cartilage and adjacent bone. A variety of treatment methods exist ...

We present a review of the literature on classification and treatment of osteochondral defects of the talus. We report the case of an isolated Berndt and Harty grade II lesion treated with a fresh ...

This week we are going to discuss osteochondral lesions in joints, something which we have touched on in the past but really have not discussed in detail. Osteochondral lesions are “potholes” in the ...

Osteochondritis dissecans lesions, also known as osteochondral lesions, refer to part of a bone and cartilage that break off from the surrounding bone. It is most likely to affect the knee, ankle, or ...

Matthew Provencher, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.): Traditionally, fresh osteochondral allografts have been used in and around the knee joint. They were first described for use in ...