A case of crossed-doubled patellar tendon: an atavistic variant, simple mutation or pathologic finding?

Anatomical variants can be found throughout the whole body. Especially in the knee region, some variability has been reported concerning the osseous, tendinous, and muscular system. Beside a few cases of patellar tendon aplasia, no anatomical variations of this tendon are known. We present a rare ca...

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Autores principales: Loizides, Alexander, Messina, Carmelo, Glodny, Bernhard, Gruber, Leonhard, Brenner, Erich, Gruber, Hannes, Henninger, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Paris 2016
Materias:
Anatomic Variations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5309275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00276-016-1706-x
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Sumario:Anatomical variants can be found throughout the whole body. Especially in the knee region, some variability has been reported concerning the osseous, tendinous, and muscular system. Beside a few cases of patellar tendon aplasia, no anatomical variations of this tendon are known. We present a rare case of a doubled patellar tendon as an anatomical variant, which to our knowledge, has not been described previously.

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