Review Question - QID 218086

A 33-year-old male presents to your clinic with complaints of persistent knee pain that is primarily located over the medial joint line. He reports he was a college baseball catcher and has had pain since college that has worsened in the last year. He also complains of occasional catching and locking and notes his knee will randomly swell. He has been doing physical therapy for 3 months, as prescribed by his primary care physician, without relief from these symptoms. An MRI cut is shown in Figure A. Given his failure of nonoperative treatment, you discuss surgical management with the plan to perform an osteochondral allograft (OCA) transplantation. Which of the following is true regarding this technique?