Patellar Avulsion Fracture

We report on the case of a 52-year-old male who sustained a transverse patellar fracture after tripping on uneven pavement. These fractures can be easy to miss on anteroposterior views, highlighting the importance of multiple radiographic views of the knee. Examination of the knee is also important,...

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Autores principales: Potla, Rohan, Williamson, Tovah, Ramlatchan, Sidhartha R, Mangal, Rohan K, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10630152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022054
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46695
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author Potla, Rohan
Williamson, Tovah
Ramlatchan, Sidhartha R
Mangal, Rohan K
Ganti, Latha
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description We report on the case of a 52-year-old male who sustained a transverse patellar fracture after tripping on uneven pavement. These fractures can be easy to miss on anteroposterior views, highlighting the importance of multiple radiographic views of the knee. Examination of the knee is also important, as initial clinical appearance can be benign. These fractures are most often seen in adolescents, which makes the current case somewhat unusual.
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spelling pubmed-106301522023-10-08 Patellar Avulsion Fracture Potla, Rohan Williamson, Tovah Ramlatchan, Sidhartha R Mangal, Rohan K Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine We report on the case of a 52-year-old male who sustained a transverse patellar fracture after tripping on uneven pavement. These fractures can be easy to miss on anteroposterior views, highlighting the importance of multiple radiographic views of the knee. Examination of the knee is also important, as initial clinical appearance can be benign. These fractures are most often seen in adolescents, which makes the current case somewhat unusual. Cureus 2023-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10630152/ /pubmed/38022054 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46695 Text en Copyright © 2023, Potla et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Potla, Rohan
Williamson, Tovah
Ramlatchan, Sidhartha R
Mangal, Rohan K
Ganti, Latha
Patellar Avulsion Fracture
title Patellar Avulsion Fracture
title_full Patellar Avulsion Fracture
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title_full_unstemmed Patellar Avulsion Fracture
title_short Patellar Avulsion Fracture
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topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10630152/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46695
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