title: Arthroscopic debridement of unicompartmental arthritis: fact or fiction?
abstract: Patients with recurrent or mechanical symptoms of unicompartmental knee arthritis that have failed conservative management are candidates for surgical intervention. Surgical options include debridement, lavage, chondroplasty, bone marrow-stimulating techniques, chondrocyte transfer, and chondrocyte implantation. These techniques have been well studied but it is still unclear which technique is superior. Various factors need to be accounted for when choosing the proper technique; among the factors discussed are the patient's age and the size of the articular cartilage defect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ 07032, USA; Department of Orthopedics, Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, 55 Meadowlands Parkway, Secaucus, NJ, USA; Touro COM, Harlem, NY, USA. Electronic address: jeburkh@aol.com.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Badri
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burkhardt
mesh_terms: D054544:Arthroplasty, Subchondral; D001182:Arthroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000637:transplantation; D003646:Debridement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D051457:Hyaline Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation*; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
keywords: Arthritis; Arthroscopy; Autologous chondrocyte implantation; Knee; Osteochondral; Unicompartmental