SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LOCAL DEFECTS OF JOINT SURFACE OF FEMUR CONDYLES (REVIEW)

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the clinical application of basic treatment techniques of local knee cartilage defects: marrow stimulation techniques and autologous osteochondral mosaicplasty. Particular attention authors give the most progressive methods, intensively developing in recent years: the use of cultures of cells capable of chondrogenesis: chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells.

Keywords

• knee joint
• cartilage
• regeneration
• arthroplasty