Mosaicplasty for knee cartilage defects
Summary
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on moasicplasty for knee cartilage defects.
As part of the NICE's work programme, the current guidance was considered for review in June 2009 but did not meet the review criteria as set out in the IP process guide. The guidance below therefore remains current.
Description
Full thickness cartilage defects of articular surfaces of weight bearing joints these can cause symptoms which vary from severe pain, catching, locking and swelling and may lead to early degenerative changes within the joint.
Mosaicplasty is a technique of creating an osteochondral autograft by harvesting and transplanting many small cylindrical osteochondral plugs from the less weight-bearing periphery of the patellofemoral area and inserting them into drilled tunnels in the defective section of cartilage
OPCS4.6 Code(s):
W83.7 Endoscopic osteochondral autograft
Includes: Endoscopic osteoarticular transfer system
Endoscopic mosaicplasty
Z84.6 Knee joint
The NHS Classifications Service of NHS Connecting for Health is the central definitive source for clinical coding guidance and determines the coding standards associated with the classifications (OPCS-4 and ICD-10) to be used across the NHS. The NHS Classifications Service and NICE work collaboratively to ensure the most appropriate classification codes are provided. www.connectingforhealth.co.uk/clinicalcoding
Details
Surgical procedures
Contact details:
Interventional Procedures Programme
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
MidCity Place
71 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6NA
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This page was last updated: 07 February 2011
