Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI

The fabella is an inconstant sesamoid bone. A handful of cases have been reported so far describing fabella fracture, usually involving high energy mechanism or stress fractures after total knee arthroplasty. This paper presents a fabella fracture in a man in his 40s after suffering a car crash, the...

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Autores principales: Buruian, Alexei, Pinheiro, Vitor, Fonseca, Fernando, Matos, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Case Reports: Rare disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38035674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-251811
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author Buruian, Alexei
Pinheiro, Vitor
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description The fabella is an inconstant sesamoid bone. A handful of cases have been reported so far describing fabella fracture, usually involving high energy mechanism or stress fractures after total knee arthroplasty. This paper presents a fabella fracture in a man in his 40s after suffering a car crash, the clinical and radiographic presentation, treatment and complete recovery at 4-months follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-106893512023-12-02 Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI Buruian, Alexei Pinheiro, Vitor Fonseca, Fernando Matos, Pedro BMJ Case Rep Case Reports: Rare disease The fabella is an inconstant sesamoid bone. A handful of cases have been reported so far describing fabella fracture, usually involving high energy mechanism or stress fractures after total knee arthroplasty. This paper presents a fabella fracture in a man in his 40s after suffering a car crash, the clinical and radiographic presentation, treatment and complete recovery at 4-months follow-up. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10689351/ /pubmed/38035674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-251811 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Buruian, Alexei
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Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI
title Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI
title_full Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI
title_fullStr Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI
title_full_unstemmed Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI
title_short Fracture of the fabella with radiologic and MRI
title_sort fracture of the fabella with radiologic and mri
topic Case Reports: Rare disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38035674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-251811
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