Smith only had loose cartilage removed from his left knee.

"They think it's loose cartilage or bone chips," he said.

The Nuggets later announced he had loose cartilage and would need arthroscopic surgery.

Kruk will have arthoscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage from the joint.

He had arthroscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage.

In fact, loose cartilage remains in the knee.

The team said some loose cartilage was removed, but that there was no other damage to the ligaments.

Rodney Hampton had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee today to remove loose cartilage and will miss two to three weeks.

She is returning from surgery to remove bone chips and loose cartilage from her left ankle.

Dare had arthroscopic surgery on both of his knees last Thursday to remove loose cartilage behind the kneecaps.

It can also fix a knee that becomes "locked" or stuck because of loose cartilage or bone fragments.

This season, he had arthroscopic knee surgery in October to remove loose cartilage, played two weeks later but was out of the lineup after three games.

"Loose Cartilage"

If the knee still hurts, he might have arthroscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage, a procedure that could idle him for 10 days to two weeks.

But the Devils' first good news of the day was that the arthroscopic surgery on Gilmour's right knee turned up nothing more than loose cartilage.

The team physician, Norman Scott, will perform the surgery to remove loose cartilage from Ward's knee.

After he missed the Atlanta game, which the Chargers lost, Humphries's elbow has locked up with loose cartilage in the last two games.

He played in only one game in his rookie season before undergoing arthroscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage behind his kneecaps.

The procedure, called microfracture surgery, is daunting: an orthopedist removes loose cartilage and drills holes in the end of the femur.

Several pieces of loose cartilage were removed from Smith's knee during the procedure, but Scott said the rest of Smith's knee was sound.

He was consistently bothered by a sprained ankle and loose cartilage in his knee, forcing him to miss over twenty games over the course of the year.

The last time he had arthroscopic surgery on his knee was in 1991, when he had loose cartilage repaired in his left knee.

He had been feeling the discomfort from the loose cartilage in his right knee well before the finals and had planned on having the surgery once the season ended.

Doctors found loose cartilage in an MRI, and Vinatieri underwent arthroscopic surgery during the Colts' bye week.

John Candelaria underwent arthroscopic surgery this monring in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to remove loose cartilage and bone from his right knee.