Case Rep Orthop 2022 16;2022:6946860. Epub 2022 May 16.
Department of Orthopedics, Civil Hospital, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.
Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) is a disorder of the subchondral bone affecting the adjacent articular cartilage that may lead to cartilage and bone fragment detachment. It commonly occurs in the knee joint, elbow, wrist, and ankle. Although several surgical concepts have been described to treat OCD (fragment fixation, microfracture, autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), and mosaicplasty), no gold standard treatment has been accepted for managing OCD. Read More