Surgical treatment of talar osteo-chondral lesions with micro-fractures, mesenchymal cells grafting on membrane, or allograft: Mid-term clinical and magnetic resonance assessment.

Puddu, Leonardo; Altamore, Fabiana; Santandrea, Alessandro; Mercurio, Domenico; Caggiari, Gianfilippo; Della Sala, Sabino; Marinetti, Alessandro; Tessarolo, Francesco et al. · J Orthop · 2020

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

Talar dome osteo-chondral lesions (OCL) are defects of the cartilaginous surface and subchondral bone often associated with sport practice. This retrospective observational work has the purpose of assessing: a) The clinical outcomes in the patients study group and in the three sub-groups; b) medium-term morphological and qualitative outcomes of the newly formed tissue by magnetic resonance imaging; c) if there is the correlation between new formed tissue clinical, morphological RM evaluation and qualitative clinical outcomes.

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