Morphological and histological features of thicker cartilage at the posterior medial femoral condyle in advanced knee osteoarthritis.

Objective: To assess morphological and histological features of cartilage at the posterior medial condyle in advanced pre-prosthetic osteoarthritis (OA), which is notably thicker compared to non-OA knees.

Design: Cartilage thickness was measured pre-operatively using MRI in 10 subjects with medial femorotibial OA (mean age: 70.2 years).