Mosaicplasty is a relatively challenging procedure used in the management of focal osteochondral lesions of the joints. Donor-site morbidity is still the main concern after mosaicplasty because it entails the harvesting of an osteochondral autograft from an otherwise healthy region to be impacted later on the weight-bearing damaged site. We describe a possible alternative to conventional mosaicplasty with subchondral bone support harvested from the iliac crest as an osteoperiosteal autograft and covered with a minced cartilage layer.

Daria Nayda has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Vreden University, Russia. She is the head of mechanical engineering department of Stanford University, USA. He has over 300 publications that have been cited over 700 times, and his publication h-index is 25. He has been serving as an editorial board member of several reputed journals.