“…Due to the diversity of terminology describing chondrectomy it was essential to begin by determining all terms used in the literature to describe the removal of pathologic joint cartilage, such as: chondrectomy, chondroplasty, excision cartilage, cartilage resection, cartilage remove, debride cartilage, chondral lesion excision, chondral debridement, chondral lesion debride, chondral lesion remove, curettage, remove chondral defect, or remove abnormal cartilage. Additionally, in order to narrow the search to knee joint cartilage surgeries, the following words were used as search terms: knee, cartilage, chondral lesion, microfracture, ACI (autologous chondrocyte implantation), AMIC (autologous matrix induced chondrogenesis), and MACI (matrix-induced autologous chon drocyte implantation) [7]. These criteria were met by 659 articles, which were subsequently were analyzed with regard to the content and description of surgical techniques.…”