Cochrane in CORR®: Surgical Interventions (Microfracture, Drilling, Mosaicplasty, and Allograft Transplantation) for Treating Isolated Cartilage Defects of the Knee in Adults.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Microfracture for cartilage repair in the knee: a systematic review of the contemporary literature.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020
   Pooled it
2. Costal Chondrocyte-Derived Pellet-Type Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation versus Microfracture for Repair of Articular Cartilage Defects: A Prospective Randomized Trial.Cartilage · 2021
   Trial
3. Hydrogel composite scaffold repairs knee cartilage defects: a systematic review.RSC advances · 2025
   Review
4. Management of Isolated Tibial Plateau Defect in the Setting of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Meniscus Repair: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Case reports in orthopedics · 2025
   Article
5. Drug-Loaded Bioscaffolds for Osteochondral Regeneration.Pharmaceutics · 2024
   Review
6. A review of advanced hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
   Review
7. Fabricating the cartilage: recent achievements.Cytotechnology · 2023
   Review
8. Treatment of knee osteochondritis dissecans with autologous tendon transplantation: Clinical and radiological results.World journal of orthopedics · 2021
   Article
9. Surgical Management of Osteochondral Defects of the Knee: An Educational Review.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2021
   Review
10. miR-23a-3p-abundant small extracellular vesicles released from Gelma/nanoclay hydrogel for cartilage regeneration.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2020
    Article

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  Surgical interventions (microfracture, drilling, mosaicplasty, and allograft transplantation) for treating isolated cartilage defects of the knee in adults.2016

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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