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. 2010 Feb 18;34(5):621–630. doi: 10.1007/s00264-010-0959-y

Table 2.

Surgical options for cartilage lesions [8]

Current generation
 Arthroscopic lavage and debridement
 Marrow tapping techniques
 Abrasion arthroplasty
 Subchondral drilling
 Microfracture
 Osteochondral autografting—mosaicoplasty
 Osteochondral allografting
New generation
 Autologous cell techniques
 ACI & MACI
 Growth factors
 Gene therapies

ACI autologous chondrocyte implantation, MACI matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation