A Primer in Cartilage Repair and Joint Preservation of the Knee presents the full range of treatment options for a changing, increasingly younger patient population. Dr. Thomas Minas demonstrates each technique?from non-surgical to mini-incision total knee arthroplasty to the recent developments in tissue biologics?through a step-by-step approach. Surgical photographs and illustrations and procedural videos online at www.expertconsult.com. This highly visual, multimedia reference guides you in choosing the best treatment course for each patient.
Chapter 1: Chondral Injury and Osteoarthritis: The Impact of Articular Cartilage Lesions
Chapter 2: Cartilage Repair and Regeneration
Chapter 3: Imaging: The Basis for a Sound Decision in Joint Preservation
Chapter 4: Patient Evaluation, Cartilage Defect, and Evidence: Putting It All Together
Part 2: Cartilage Repair Surgical Techniques
Chapter 5: Debridement, Microfracture, and Osteochondral Autograft Transfer for Treatment of Cartilage Defects
Chapter 6: Use of Fresh Osteochondral Allograft for Chondral and Osteochondral Defects in the Knee
Chapter 7: Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation
Part 3: Surgical Management of Background Factors
Chapter 8: Tibial Osteotomy
Chapter 9: Femoral Varus Osteotomy
Chapter 10: Patellofemoral Malalignment. Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy, and Trochleoplasty
Chapter 11: Treatment of Deep Osteochondritis Dissecans Lesions, Avascular Necrosis, and Osteochondral Defects of the Knee Using Autologous Bone Grafting
Chapter 12: Meniscal Allograft Transplantation
Chapter 13: Complex Cases in Cartilage Repair: Tricks and Tips
Chapter 14: Emerging Technologies
Part 4: Early Intervention in Osteoarthritis
Chapter 15: Patellofemoral Arthroplasty
Chapter 16: Patient-Specific Unicompartmental and Bicompartmental Resurfacing Arthroplasty
Index