Abstract
There has been great progress concerning the surgical treatment of full-thickness cartilage defects within recent years. Surgical techniques such as arthroscopic microfracturing (MF), autologous osteochondral transplantation (OCT) and autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) have been introduced and, by using these techniques, reliable and satisfying clinical results can be achieved. Nevertheless, there are also technique-related problems and characteristic complications of all surgical techniques in the field of cartilage repair. Knowledge of these complications is essential for every surgeon using these techniques. The aim of the present article is to give an overview concerning technique-associated and characteristic complications of the most common cartilage repair techniques including arthroscopic microfracturing, autologous osteochondral transplantation and autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). In order to identify relevant literature concerning complications following cartilage repair, medical databases including "medline", "ovid" and "web of science" were searched for the terms "autologous chondrocyte implantation", "autologous chondrocyte transplantation", "microfracture", "osteochondral transplantation", "cartil...Continue Reading
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