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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2003
Katherine A. Gomes, Somerville, NJ (US);
Moon Hae Sunwoo, Old Tappan, NJ (US);
Arthur A. Gertzman, Stony Point, NY (US);
Katherine A. Gomes, Somerville, NJ (US);
Moon Hae Sunwoo, Old Tappan, NJ (US);
Arthur A. Gertzman, Stony Point, NY (US);
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Edison, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed toward a sterile cartilage defect implant material comprising milled lyophilized allograft cartilage pieces ranging from 0.01 mm to 1.0 mm in size in a bioabsorbable carrier taken from a group consisting of sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic acid and its derivatives, gelatin, collagen, chitosan, alginate, buffered PBS, Dextran or polymers with allogenic chondrocytes or bone marrow cells in an amount exceeding the natural occurrence of same in hyaline cartilage and adding a cell growth additive.