Cartilage and Bone Serum Biomarkers as Novel Tools for Monitoring Knee Osteochondritis Dissecans Treated with Osteochondral Scaffold

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:11.19em"/><col style="width:6.80em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"><b>Number of Patients (n.)</b></td><td class="align_center">14 (4 athletes)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" rowspan="2"><b>Lesion location</b></td><td class="align_center">1 trochlea</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">13 MFC</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" rowspan="2"><b>Sex</b></td><td class="align_center">4 Female</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">10 Male</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>Age (mean ± SD)</b></td><td class="align_center">23.6 ± 8.6</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>BMI (mean ± SD)</b></td><td class="align_center">23.99 ± 4.24</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>Physes</b></td><td class="align_center">14 closed</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td><div>MFC= medial femoral condyle; BMI = Body Mass Index.<br/></div></td></tr></table>

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Table 1: Cartilage and Bone Serum Biomarkers as Novel Tools for Monitoring Knee Osteochondritis Dissecans Treated with Osteochondral Scaffold 