William Wyant Schairer1, Alexander A.
Theologis1, Sharmila Majumdar1, Xiaojuan Li1,
Benjamin Ma1
1University of
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longitudinal MRI analysis was performed on patients with focal cartilage
defects of the femur who received either mosaicplasty or microfracture
surgical treatment. We examined T1rho and T2 changes at 3-months and 1-year.
Additionally, we performed a laminar analysis to compare the superficial and
deep cartilage at the repair site and in the surrounding normal tissue.