A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Cyamella,the sesamoid bones of the popliteus muscle, are rare in humans. Snapping knee is an uncommon problem which can be difficult to diagnose. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case, we report a 24-year-old male with snapping knee caused by symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon. A lar...

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Autores principales: Su, Shouwen, Lu, Yunxiang, Chen, Yuxian, Li, Zhiyong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31656193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2882-8
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author Su, Shouwen
Lu, Yunxiang
Chen, Yuxian
Li, Zhiyong
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Lu, Yunxiang
Chen, Yuxian
Li, Zhiyong
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description BACKGROUND: Cyamella,the sesamoid bones of the popliteus muscle, are rare in humans. Snapping knee is an uncommon problem which can be difficult to diagnose. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case, we report a 24-year-old male with snapping knee caused by symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon. A large cyamella was identified upon surgery and was removed. Postoperatively, the patient had immediate relief of preoperative symptoms, and there were no signs of recurrence after 1 years of follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Although not previously suggested, symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon should be considered as part of the differential diagnosis of the snapping knee.
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spelling pubmed-68154072019-10-31 A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review Su, Shouwen Lu, Yunxiang Chen, Yuxian Li, Zhiyong BMC Musculoskelet Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: Cyamella,the sesamoid bones of the popliteus muscle, are rare in humans. Snapping knee is an uncommon problem which can be difficult to diagnose. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case, we report a 24-year-old male with snapping knee caused by symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon. A large cyamella was identified upon surgery and was removed. Postoperatively, the patient had immediate relief of preoperative symptoms, and there were no signs of recurrence after 1 years of follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Although not previously suggested, symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon should be considered as part of the differential diagnosis of the snapping knee. BioMed Central 2019-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6815407/ /pubmed/31656193 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2882-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Su, Shouwen
Lu, Yunxiang
Chen, Yuxian
Li, Zhiyong
A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
title A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
title_full A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
title_short A symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
title_sort symptomatic cyamella in the popliteus tendon causing snapping knee: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31656193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2882-8
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