The use of bone graft for managing bone defects in complex total knee arthroplasty

The use of bone graft to reconstruct defects about the knee remains an important part of the TKA surgeon's armamentarium. While adaptable for almost all defects, its use has been in part replaced by other techniques that may be more readily employed. Nonetheless, it remains a mainstay of defect reconstruction by virtue of its adaptability to a wide variety of defect configurations and clinical situations. By following the principles of grafting enumerated by several investigators, a high degree of success can be attained using bone grafts.