Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature

Patellar instability is a known but catastrophic complication after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The occurrence of bilateral dislocation of the patella after TKA is exceedingly rare. It may present as anterior knee pain, and diagnosis can easily be made clinically or by plain radiographs. Early di...

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Autores principales: Vaishya, Raju, Agarwal, Amit Kumar, Panthi, Sagar, Vijay, Vipul, Vaish, Abhishek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409075
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1075
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author Vaishya, Raju
Agarwal, Amit Kumar
Panthi, Sagar
Vijay, Vipul
Vaish, Abhishek
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description Patellar instability is a known but catastrophic complication after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The occurrence of bilateral dislocation of the patella after TKA is exceedingly rare. It may present as anterior knee pain, and diagnosis can easily be made clinically or by plain radiographs. Early diagnosis with surgical realignment and repair of the extensor mechanism can provide good outcomes after this complication.
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spelling pubmed-53803892017-04-13 Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature Vaishya, Raju Agarwal, Amit Kumar Panthi, Sagar Vijay, Vipul Vaish, Abhishek Cureus Orthopedics Patellar instability is a known but catastrophic complication after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The occurrence of bilateral dislocation of the patella after TKA is exceedingly rare. It may present as anterior knee pain, and diagnosis can easily be made clinically or by plain radiographs. Early diagnosis with surgical realignment and repair of the extensor mechanism can provide good outcomes after this complication. Cureus 2017-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5380389/ /pubmed/28409075 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1075 Text en Copyright © 2017, Vaishya et al. http://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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Vaishya, Raju
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Panthi, Sagar
Vijay, Vipul
Vaish, Abhishek
Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
title Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
title_full Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
title_short Bilateral Patella Dislocation after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
title_sort bilateral patella dislocation after total knee arthroplasty: a report of two cases and a review of the literature
topic Orthopedics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409075
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1075
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