One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Shelbourne and Gray [1] have shown that 97% of knees with a normal meniscus and articular surface at the time of ... graft that was augmented in the tibial and femoral tunnels with a bone graft ...

1 Division of Sports Medicine and Non-Operative Orthopaedics, Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and ...

This new study, however, puts birth tissue to a truly daunting test—the complex, tibial pilon and platea fracture ... approach and maximize visibility of the articular surfaces. According to the ...

Nature has developed a protective layer at the ends of bones in the joint that come in contact with each other that is known as articular ... surfaces of ends of bones articulating with each other in ...

Intra-articular (IA ... reduced the damage of cartilage surfaces, inhibited the chondrocytes changes, structural changes and loss of Safrain O staining intensity of femoral condyle and tibial plateau ...

Knee osteoarthritis (OA), known as a degenerative joint disease, results from the wear, tear, and progressive loss of articular cartilage ... including bones (i.e., femoral bone, tibial bone, patella ...

At the knee joint, valgus may occur from a pure abduction motion of the distal tibia relative to the femur or from transverse plane knee rotation motions (femoral/tibial internal and external ...

Wear is reduced by improving contact area and reducing contact stress in all articular surfaces. All articular surfaces are polished, including the proximal tibia. A nondegrading form of ...