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Figure 6

From: Characteristics of repair tissue in second-look and third-look biopsies from patients treated with engineered cartilage: relationship to symptomatology and time after implantation

Figure 6

Histological and immunohistochemical analysis data for biopsies obtained from asymptomatic patients only (n = 47). The biopsies were divided into those taken before (n = 41) or after (n = 6) the cutoff point of 18 months post Hyalograft® C Autograft implantation. Six biopsies were taken from asymptomatic patients longer than 18 months after surgery. Results showed that five out of six consisted primarily of hyaline cartilage (83.3%); only one biopsy contained mixed tissue (17.7%).

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Arthritis Research & Therapy

ISSN: 1478-6362

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