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To the Editor: Brittberg et al. (Oct. 6 issue)¹ are to be commended for conducting a study of 23 patients that not only involved the transfer of articular and nonarticular tissue into deep cartilage defects in the knee but also required two follow-up operations. In the second of those procedures, biopsy specimens extending to the subchondral bone were taken from the central part of the transplant.

In consideration of these factors, it is perhaps understandable that no control group was included in the study. Nevertheless, it would have been nice to know just how much benefit was derived from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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