Table 1: Advantages and disadvantages of the

medial patellofemoral complex reconstruction technique

with allograft.

Advantages

Disadvantages

Reproduces anatomy

Requires intraoperative fluoroscopy

Preserves femoral physis

Availability and cost of allograft

Provides static

and dynamic stabilization

 

Greater graft divergence

> stability

 

Allograft

< morbidity/surgical time

than autograft