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There are also a number of alternative surgical techniques that are sometimes used to treat cartilage damage, including: 1  Allograft osteochondral transplantation (AOT) â similar to mosaicplasty, but the replacement cartilage is obtained from a recently deceased donor and is used to repair larger damaged areas.
It is minimally invasive surgery because the surgical incision is small, surgical dissection is minimal, bone removal is minimal, and disc removal is limited to the ruptured portion of the disc. It still achieves the goal of surgery that the classic conventional lumbar discectomy accomplishes.