Crabmeat cartilage

Written by Dr Sheila Strover on March 14, 2025

Crabmeat cartilage is joint cartilage that has broken down into fibrillated white fronds that resemble crab meat.

Outerbridge Grade IV - patellar cartilage fibrillated with exposure of underlying bone in the tibiaHere the underlying bone is exposed.

Fissuring

The significance of crabmeat fissuring is that the integrity of the cartilage has been breached, and time will certainly progress the destruction.