A surgical procedure for a repair of a chondral defect of the medial femoral condyle involves the following: harvesting multiple plugs of intact articular cartilage along with some subchondral bone of the patient's own tissue from a donor site (typically a non-weight-bearing portion of the joint surface)and implanting the plugs (using a press fit)into the site of the articular lesion.This procedure is called:

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The surgical procedure described involves harvesting multiple plugs of intact articular cartilage along with some subchondral bone of the patient's own tissue from a donor site and implanting them into the site of the articular lesion. This is characteristic of osteochondral autograft transplantation, which is a type of transplant surgery that transfers healthy cartilage and bone from a non-weight-bearing part of the patient's own joint to replace damaged or missing cartilage and bone in another part of the same joint. Other options, such as autologous chondrocyte implantation, microfracture, and debridement and lavage, do not involve this specific type of tissue transfer.

A Surgical Procedure for a Repair of a Chondral Defect