Research progress and clinical application of Tantalum in therepair of cartilage / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Cartilage injury is very common in clinical,which can be caused by multiple factors,such as trauma,degenerative change and chronic strain.The clinical application of cartilage injury treatment includs conservative treatment,surgical treatment,and chondrocytes implant with cell scaffold,but all these methods are still unable to achieve a very satisfactory effect.Therefore,new explorations have been made in the field of cartilage repair,and the metal and other inorganic substances with better human compatibility have made great progress.Tantalum,a kind of transitional element,which has excellent chemical and physical properties and biocompatibility,is becoming more and more concerned in cartilage repair.This paper will review the research progress of tantalumin the repair of cartilage in recent years.