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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.
Unformatted text preview: Chondroplasty is the surgical repair of damaged cartilage[ chondr/o means cartilage, and - plasty means surgical repair]. Synovectomy is the surgical removal of a synovial membrane from a joint[ synov means synovial membrane, and -ectomy means rurgical removal]. One use of this procedure, which can be performed endoscopically, is to repair joint damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis.