Bioengineering Orientated Studies on the Structure of Human Hip Joint Cartilage

Vascularity of Cartilage

“…Penetration by capillary loops of the calcified cartilage, and in some instances the tidemark, also has been observed by scanning electron microscopy (Mital and Millington, 1970;Redler etaL, 1975). Vascular channels are 5 0 -6 0 μπι wide at the base and 5-10 μπι wide in the superficial zone of the calcified cartilage (Millington and Clarke, 1973). The vascular loops anas tomose at their venous ends, forming a sinusoidal network.…”