Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use

Simultaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture is a rare injury. We report the case of bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture sustained with minimal force while refereeing a football game. The injury was suspected to be associated with statin use as the patient had no other identifiable risk factors....

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Autores principales: Nesselroade, Ryan D., Nickels, Leslie Connor
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2010
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Ultrasound
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21079697
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description Simultaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture is a rare injury. We report the case of bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture sustained with minimal force while refereeing a football game. The injury was suspected to be associated with statin use as the patient had no other identifiable risk factors. The diagnosis was confirmed using bedside ultrasound.
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spelling pubmed-29676772010-11-15 Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use Nesselroade, Ryan D. Nickels, Leslie Connor West J Emerg Med Ultrasound Simultaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture is a rare injury. We report the case of bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture sustained with minimal force while refereeing a football game. The injury was suspected to be associated with statin use as the patient had no other identifiable risk factors. The diagnosis was confirmed using bedside ultrasound. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2010-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2967677/ /pubmed/21079697 Text en Copyright © 2010 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use
title Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use
title_full Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use
title_fullStr Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use
title_full_unstemmed Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use
title_short Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Statin Use
title_sort ultrasound diagnosis of bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture after statin use
topic Ultrasound
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21079697
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