ReviewCartilage2021
Cartilage Injuries and Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis in the Wrist: A Review.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Patient reported and functional outcome measures after surgical salvage procedures for posttraumatic radiocarpal osteoarthritis - a systematic review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Pooled it
- Pencil Grip X-Ray View Improves Detection of Early Wrist Arthritis.Journal of wrist surgery · 2026Article
- Cartilage damage in patients with scapholunate lesions: arthroscopic prevalence, location and associated clinical factors.The Journal of hand surgery, European volume · 2026Article
- The Prevalence of Focal Carpal Chondromalacia Concurrent With Chronic Dynamic Scapholunate Instability.Journal of hand surgery global online · 2026Article
- Cartilage reconstruction using Chondrofiller in intra-articular distal radius fractures.Arthroplasty (London, England) · 2025Review
- Joint Tissues: Convergence and Divergence of the Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Indication for Radial or Carpal Resurfacing for Wrist Arthritis in Elderly Patients (over 70): A Systematic Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis and Functional Outcomes After Volar Plating vs. Casting of Unstable Distal Radius Fractures: A Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up of the VOLCON Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Hamatolunate impingement, a differential diagnosis of ulnar-sided wrist pain.Journal of hand and microsurgery · 2024Article
- [Osteoarthritis of the wrist].Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- TRPV Channels in Osteoarthritis: A Comprehensive Review.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Development and Validation of a Survey to Measure Patients' Expectations of Wrist Arthritis Surgery.Journal of wrist surgery · 2023Article
- Osteoarthritis: pathogenic signaling pathways and therapeutic targets.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Review
- Osteoarthritis: New Insight on Its Pathophysiology.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- The Therapeutic Potential of Secreted Factors from Dental Pulp Stem Cells for Various Diseases.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Total Wrist Arthroplasty for Posttraumatic Wrist Osteoarthritis: A Cohort Study Comparing Three Indications.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveFocal cartilage injuries, and posttraumatic osteoarthritis (OA) in the wrist are likely common and a cause of wrist pain. To estimate the incidence of cartilage lesions and to understand the pathomechanisms leading to wrist cartilage injuries and OA, a literature review on the subject was performed combined with a presentation of one of the authors' own experience.
designThis study includes a literature review of the topic. As a comparison to the review findings, the observations of one of the authors' consecutive 48 wrist arthroscopies, were assessed. PubMed, Scholar, and Cochrane databases were searched using the keywords "cartilage injury AND wrist AND treatment" and "wrist AND cartilage AND chondral AND osteochondral AND degenerative OA." :
resultA total of 11 articles, including 9 concerning chondral and osteochondral repair and treatment and 2 regarding posttraumatic OA, were retrieved. The cartilage repair treatments used in these articles were drilling, osteochondral autograft, juvenile articular cartilage allograft, and chondrocyte implantation. One article displayed concomitant cartilage injuries in displaced distal radius fractures in 32% of the patients. The review of our findings from a 1-year cohort of wrist arthroscopies showed 17% cartilage injuries.
conclusionThere is a lack of knowledge in current literature on cartilage injuries and treatment, as well as posttraumatic OA in the wrist. Cartilage injuries appear to be common, being found in 17% to 32% of all wrist arthroscopies after trauma, but no guidelines regarding conservative or surgical treatment can be recommended at the moment. Larger prospective comparative studies are needed.
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