title: [Cartilage repair techniques--current status and potentials].
abstract: A variety of cartilage repair techniques has been introduced into clinical application during the past 20 years. Tissue engineering is a technology which has the potential to treat these defects with low morbidity.
authors.affiliation: Orthopädische Universitätsklinik, Felix Platter-Spital Basel.
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authors.lastname: Schäfer
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002356:Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation*; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D010521:Periosteum / Q000637:transplantation*; D023822:Tissue Engineering; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology