Arthroscopic drilling vs. micro-invasive surgery for the treatment of full-thickness chondral defects / 中华全科医师杂志
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners
;
(6): 410-411, 2009.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-394600
ABSTRACT
This retrospective study was to compare the clinical effects of arthroscopie drilling with arthroscopic microfracture technology on full-thickness chondral defects in 68 patients treated between March 2003 and June 2005. The patients were followed up for an average of (20 ± 5 ) months. Lysholm score and Tegner scale were used to evaluate the efficacy. For the arthrescopic drilling group (n = 15 ) and the microfracture surgery group (n =27) , total effective rates were 12/15 and 85% (23/27), respectively. Our data suggest that those two methods provide simple and effective surgical procedure for the treatment of chondral defects of the knee; the results of arthroscopic microfracture were significantly better than arthroscopic drilling.
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Type of study:
Observational study
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners
Year:
2009
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