The onset of osteoarthritis is characterized by damage to articular cartilage. Current treatments include pharmaceutical therapies and arthroplasty procedures. Work on a new type of device that uses orthogonal woven polymer scaffolds as a structure for tissue engineering of cartilage has been cited in the literature [1].
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Poster Session II: Design and Devices
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