[Treatment of deep cartilage defects in the knee with autologous chondrocyte transplantation: a review of 28 cases].

Purpose Of The Study: The knee has little capacity for spontaneous regeneration of deep cartilage defects. In 1999, the French Society of Arthroscopy initiated a multicentric clinical trial on autologous chondrocyte transplantation using the technique described by Brittberg and Peterson. The protocol of this prospective study was validated by the ethics committee and all patients provided the informed consent for participation.

[Implantation of autologous chondrocytes for cartilagenous lesions in young patients. A study of 24 cases].

Study Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the treatment of symptomatic knee cartilage defects on young active patients by autologous chondrocyte implantation and to report preliminary results in 24 patients.

Patients And Methods: Since April 1996, 24 selected patients underwent 25 implantations in five military hospitals. There were 19 men and five women (all of them practicing sports); mean age was 27.

Imaging evaluation of subluxation in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease: magnetic resonance imaging compared with the plain radiograph.

The aim of the study was to evaluate the advantages of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in determining subluxation in Legg-Calvé-Perthes (LCPD) disease. Twenty-six patients with unilateral LCPD received 33 MRI and plain radiographs. For each patient, acetabulum head index (AHI) was measured on both hips (affected and unaffected) in a blinded fashion.

[Upper femoral epiphysiolysis in French Polynesia. Hip pain with serious consequences].

High femoral epiphysiolysis is a frequent disability in French Polynesia, occurring more in obese young people that being a morphotype quite frequent in this geographical area. It is often at the stage of acute epiphysiolysis or fixed coxa vara these patients are examined. At such stage, sequellae are major and evolving to precocious coxarthrosis.