The composition of normal and osteoarthritic articular cartilage from human knee joints. With special reference to unicompartmental replacement and osteotomy of the knee.

Abstract

The results of this study suggest that degenerative changes in osteoarthritic knees are focal in origin and that corrective osteotomy or unicompartmental joint replacement might be rational procedures for knees in which the cartilage in all of one compartment is visually intact.