Histological evidence of successful internal fixation for traumatic chondral …

Isolated chondral fractures without cancellous bone have limited healing potential. We reattached a chondral fragment without cancellous bone using bone pegs for chondral fracture of the femoral groove in a 13-year-old boy. Five months after the surgery, we performed a biopsy to evaluate the histological findings for the healed osteochondral junction. Biopsy results showed that osteoblasts had …