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Ortho Help. Patient with cartilage defect in her medial femoral condyle. SM - Anon


Posted: Nov 06, 2011

At this point, she probably will need arthroscopy with microfracture versus an (s/l olds) procedure.

 

TIA

Probably OATS procedure...sm - GT

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osteochrondral allograft or autograft transplantation


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