Practice guidelines for approaching articular cartilage defects of the knee

Publication date: Available online 12 February 2017 Source:Apollo Medicine Author(s): Abhishek Vaish, Raju Vaishya, Vipul Vijay, Amit Kumar Agarwal Cartilage lesions pose both diagnostic and treatment challenges to the treating orthopaedic surgeons. An early diagnosis of these lesions is the key to success, and hence awareness about these lesions is mandatory to reach a prompt conclusion and decision making. There are newer techniques published almost every day all over the world. We have tried to compile all the techniques commonly performed and the available guidelines, critically analyzed them and came up with an algorithm which suits the patients in the Indian subcontinent.
Source: Apollo Medicine - Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research