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Articular Cartilage Physiology

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Articular cartilage is mainly hyaline articular cartilage. It is an avascular and aneural tissue; thus its potential for healing is limited—if not nonexistent.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Ann Marie Kelly, Nikolaos K. Paschos, Dimitrios Giotis & John D. Kelly IV

  2. Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Nikolaos K. Paschos

  3. Panepistimion Ioanninon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios Giotis

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Nikolaos K. Paschos

  2. Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculo-Skeletal Science, U.C.London, Stanmore, Middlesex, UK

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Kelly, A.M., Paschos, N.K., Giotis, D., Kelly, J.D. (2019). Articular Cartilage Physiology. In: Paschos, N., Bentley, G. (eds) General Orthopaedics and Basic Science. Orthopaedic Study Guide Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92193-8_9

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