Instructional Course Lecture, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Musculoskeletal allografts have a defi-nite role in reconstructive surgery of the lower extremity. Although this role has been controversial in the past, the use of allografts is now clearly indicated. In addition, the improved safety and avail-ability of banked tissue has made its use more universal. The purposes of the cur-rent paper are to describe the role of al-lografts in revision hip arthroplasty and to outline the indications, surgical tech-niques, and results at our institution. Revision Arthroplasty of the Hip Restoration of bone stock is an impor-tant goal in revision arthroplasty of th