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RN, FNP, 21 years experience. Chondroplasty is the medical term meaning surgical repair of cartilage. (chondr/o meaning cartilage and -plasty meaning surgical repair). Chondroplasty is the medical term meaning surgical repair of cartilage. (chondr/o meaning cartilage and -plasty meaning surgical repair).
This Review focuses on bone erosion in RA, and does not discuss cartilage damage. Nonetheless, cartilage damage is an equally important feature of structural damage in RA that occurs through fundamentally different mechanisms to bone erosions.