Knee cartilage defect
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Retrospective analysis of all patients who underwent cartilage reconstruction of the knee joint between 2014 and 2025.
Sponsors
Vulpius Klinik
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: This retrospective study includes patients who underwent cartilage reconstruction surgery during the period from January 2014 to December 2025.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Minors, insufficient patient records, lack of documentation regarding the measured size of the cartilage defect in surgery, poor quality of arthroscopic images
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Cartilage defect sizes are retrospectively measured in arthroscopy images using a machine learnig tool and compared with conventional measurement methods. - The causes of cartilage injuries are described descriptively and presented with frequency distributions. - The type of cartilage treatment procedure (e.g., microfracture, minced cartilage, autologous matrix-induced chondrogenesis, autologous chondrocyte transplantation) is analyzed descriptively and presented with frequency distributions. - After determining the cartilage defect size, treatment recommendations from various large language models are compared with the actual cartilage treatment procedure using inferential statistics. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Radiological findings (e.g., joint space narrowing, concomitant injuries on X-ray and MRI) are summarized descriptively. A correlation between cartilage defect size measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and arthroscopy (using conventional and new method) is investigated using linear regression analysis if necessary. - The demographic information of the included patients (e.g., age, sex, BMI) is summarized descriptively. The empirical distribution of data and scores is described using mean, standard deviation, minimum, median, and maximum. - Intra- and postoperative complications and any revision surgeries are analyzed using frequency distributions if necessary. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactMustafa Canberk Göktepe
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Zentrum für Orthopädie, Unfallchirurgie und Paraplegiologie
Outcome results
None listed