Early changes in the composition of rabbit articular cartilage following experimentally produced intra-articular fractures. A histological and thermoanalytical study.

Intra-articular fractures were produced in rabbit knee joints. The articular cartilage of the injured joints was processed histologically and analysed by a complex thermoanalytical method. It was demonstrated that intra-articular fractures in the early stages have essentially no irreversible damaging effects on the composition of articular cartilage of injured joints.