Fracture of the Fabella: An Uncommon Injury in Knee

The fabella is a sesamoid bone that may contribute to the stabilization of the posterolateral knee corner and it can very occasionally act as a source of atypical and rare knee pain and functional impairment. Fracture of the fabella is a rare but important clinical entity which may be overlooked cli...

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Autores principales: Cherrad, Taoufik, Louaste, Jamal, Bousbaä, Hicham, Amhajji, Larbi, Khaled, Rachid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/396710
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author Cherrad, Taoufik
Louaste, Jamal
Bousbaä, Hicham
Amhajji, Larbi
Khaled, Rachid
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Louaste, Jamal
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Khaled, Rachid
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description The fabella is a sesamoid bone that may contribute to the stabilization of the posterolateral knee corner and it can very occasionally act as a source of atypical and rare knee pain and functional impairment. Fracture of the fabella is a rare but important clinical entity which may be overlooked clinically and radiographically. However, it causes an intermittent mechanical pain of the knee and it can mistakenly harm another knee pathology like intra-articular loose body. We report a case of a 21-year-old man who was sustaining a fracture of fabella following vehicle accident.
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spelling pubmed-45840602015-10-07 Fracture of the Fabella: An Uncommon Injury in Knee Cherrad, Taoufik Louaste, Jamal Bousbaä, Hicham Amhajji, Larbi Khaled, Rachid Case Rep Orthop Case Report The fabella is a sesamoid bone that may contribute to the stabilization of the posterolateral knee corner and it can very occasionally act as a source of atypical and rare knee pain and functional impairment. Fracture of the fabella is a rare but important clinical entity which may be overlooked clinically and radiographically. However, it causes an intermittent mechanical pain of the knee and it can mistakenly harm another knee pathology like intra-articular loose body. We report a case of a 21-year-old man who was sustaining a fracture of fabella following vehicle accident. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4584060/ /pubmed/26448891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/396710 Text en Copyright © 2015 Taoufik Cherrad et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/396710
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