The Treatment of Cartilaginous Lesions and Concomitant Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Patients incapable of understanding and of wanting;
• •2. State of immunodepression;
• •3. Patients with malignant neoplasms;
• •4. Patients suffering from rheumatic diseases;
• •5. Patients suffering from non-compensated diabetes;
• •6. Patients suffering from uncompensated thyroid metabolic disorders;
• •7. Patients abusing alcoholic beverages, drugs or drugs;
• •8. Patients with axial deviations\> 5 °;
• •9. Body Mass Index\> 35;
• •10. Patients treated with surgery at the same knee in the previous 12 months.
• •11. Cartilaginous lesions grade I-II according to the ICRS score.
• •12. Cartilage lesions with a diameter greater than 3 cm².
• •13. Non-suturable meniscal lesions requiring meniscectomy\> 50% and patients with previous meniscectomies\> 50% in the same compartment.
• •14. Need for further associated surgical procedures in addition to the reconstruction of ACL and possibly the nanofractures.