When the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, it is called metastatic cancer. The liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and bones are common areas of spread or metastasis. Even when cancer spreads to a new location, it is still named after the area of the body where it started.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chondroplasty refers to surgery of the cartilage, the most common being corrective surgery of the cartilage of the knee. Surgery known as thyroid chondroplasty (or trachea shave) is used to reduce the visibility of the Adam's Apple in transsexual women.
The formation of this new scar cartilage or fibrous cartilage as it is more. formally known is important in the process of healing of your knee. We can not change the natural outcome or arthritis, nor can we cure arthritis. What we. hope to do by performing with the chondroplasty is to delay progression of arthritis.