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Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation

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Autologous chondrocyte implantation is a biomedical treatment that repairs damaged articular cartilage using the patient own cartilage cells. It provides pain relief and can delay or avoid the need for a joint replacement, and over the past two decades it has become one of the most developed articular cartilage repair techniques, though it fails in about fifteen percent of cases.

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Autologous chondrocyte implantation is a biomedical treatment that repairs damages in articular cartilage.
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