Considerations in Evaluating Treatment Options for Patellofemoral Cartilage Pathology.

摘要: Patellofemoral (PF) pain, a subset of anterior knee presents particularly challenging diagnosis due to the multifactorial etiology. Within this group, assigning patient's symptoms patellofemoral cartilage lesion is indirect; that is, by exclusion as hyaline aneural. In addition, these PF compartment lesions are often in conjunction with various comorbidities, for example, malalignment and/or instability. light factors and high shear compression stresses at compartment, patellar trochlear chondral require unique treatment considerations from tibiofemoral compartments. A thorough understanding restoration techniques available necessary select best option individual patient/knee/lesion noting there overlap techniques' applications. failure address correct associated comorbidities may jeopardize outcome any procedure. That key achieving optimal outcomes particular setting concomitantly optimize biomechanical environment stability.