“Mother Nature put in this piece of fat that’s in our knee, it’s called the fat pad. And we looked at the fat pad and it contains a very high number of stem cells,” illustrated Dr. Drago ...

The knee is flexed to 30° using a bolster with ... under the skin and between the patellar tendon and Hoffa’s fat pad. A skin wheal is created at the lateral border of the pathologic portion ...

According to researchers a new has been found way of converting cells from the fat pad inside the knee into cartilage that could be used to repair knee problems. There is growing interest in the ...

Hoffa’s fat pad, also known as the infrapatellar fat pad, is a fatty soft tissue that lies under the knee cap. It contains many nerves and can be a source of anterior knee pain. Injury or ...

"We could then grow cartilage custom-made for the individual to repair an injury in the knee with the patient's own tissue." The fat pad is a dense structure behind the patella, or kneecap ...

"Mother Nature put in this piece of fat that's in our knee. It's called the fat pad, and we looked at the fat pad and it contains a very high number of stem cells," Dragoo said. During surgery ...

"We could then grow cartilage custom-made for the individual to repair an injury in the knee with the patient's own tissue." The fat pad is a dense structure behind the patella, or kneecap ...