Microfracture: surgical technique and rehabilitation to treat chondral defects.

By J. Steadman, W. Rodkey, J. Rodrigo. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2001

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The microfracture technique for the treatment of articular cartilage lesions in the knee. A prospective cohort study. (2005, methodology): “Microfracture of the isolated femoral cartilage lesion was then performed according to the method described by Steadman et al.15.”
Osteochondral tissue engineering: current strategies and challenges. (2013, background): “During microfracture, or subchondral drilling, the subchondral bone is stimulated, by drilling, to expose the underlying mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) (Blevins et al., 1998; Steadman et al., 2001).”
Clinical Efficacy of the Microfracture Technique for Articular Cartilage Repair in the Knee (2009, methodology): “Developed by Steadman in the 1980s, this widely used procedure is generally regarded as safe and effective (Figure 1).(35,45,46,49) Despite its widespread clinical use, no systematic evaluation of the clinical efficacy of the microfracture technique for cartilage repair in the knee is available.”