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Prospective Interventional Clinical Trial of an MRI Based Patient Specific Focal Knee Resurfacing Implant

Lesions in the cartilage are common disorders. Arthroscopy lavage and debridement micro fracturing, mosaic plasticity as well as osteochondral autograft transplantation (OATS) are methods used for treatment of the lesions. Some have shown to help the patients but there is an ongoing treatment gap especially for patients with knee lesions and early osteoarthritis. Episurf Medical has developed a Focal Knee Resurfacing (FKR) implant, the Episealer® implant. The implant is used for treatment of focal cartilage lesions of the lateral or medial femoral condyle in order to alleviate pain and improve range of motion. In this study, the investigators aims to establish if this implant is a viable option for focal cartilage lesions of the distal femur not responding, or not eligible for, biological treatment options (eg. microfracturing)