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Partial Resurfacing Implants

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Treatment of symptomatic, isolated, localized, full-thickness, femoral cartilage defects in middle-aged active patients is a challenge due to poor cartilage healing capacity and frequently disabling symptoms [1]. Also such cartilage lesions can progress into osteoarthritis (OA) [2]. Biological treatment options such as marrow stimulation and chondrocyte transplantation are influenced by patient age and have less favourable outcomes with increasing patient age [3, 4]. Total and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty are typically not indicated for these patients due to only a limited area of the knee having significant cartilage loss [5, 6]. Normally non-operative treatment modalities are employed for these patients with physiotherapy, weight loss, analgesics and activity modification. But non-operative management is in some cases ineffective or fails over time. In these cases surgical treatment with a resurfacing implant is a potential treatment option.

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Lind, M. (2022). Partial Resurfacing Implants. In: Becker, R., Hirschmann, M.T., Kort, N.P. (eds) Basics in Primary Knee Arthroplasty. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58178-7_9

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