He had two operations, including a cartilage graft.
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The procedures, two knee replacements and one cartilage graft, involved different surgeons, rooms and air systems.
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Two of the men had knee-replacement surgery; the other had what Hull called a cartilage graft.
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Concha, septum or rib cartilage grafts should be used for creating enough support and a good shape.
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So, the surgical team devised a new technique, employing a cartilage graft to enhance the tracheal luminal diameter.
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Injections of Carticel grown cartilage offer an alternative to grinding down or shaving cartilage defects, or to surgical cartilage grafts, the company said.
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"' Richard C . Lehman "', M . D ., is an orthopedic surgeon in St . Louis, Missouri, who pioneered the procedure for articular cartilage reconstruction using two-phased cartilage grafts.
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The surgical team succeeded in employing a cartilage graft to enhance the tracheal luminal diameter where earlier tests had revealed an aggregation of fibrotic and granulation tissue at the posterior aspect of the trachea at a length of 8 10 cm.
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The idea of changing the shape of the nose with no external incision and no cartilage grafts is interesting enough _ but I had just finished reading about this revolutionary new instrument for nasal surgery that a doctor developed 101 years ago by attaching a one-eighth horsepower motor to a saw blade.