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Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation

Congenital patellar dislocation (CPD) is a rare deformity in children that involves a laterally displaced patella. While potentially identified in early childhood using diagnostic imaging techniques, it is often misdiagnosed at birth, creating pain and mobility issues as the child grows. Dislocation...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Hiep, Mekler, Elizabeth, Truong, Ann, Nguyen, Nghi, Iqbal, Enjolina, Kidron, Ariel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987941
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20082
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author Nguyen, Hiep
Mekler, Elizabeth
Truong, Ann
Nguyen, Nghi
Iqbal, Enjolina
Kidron, Ariel
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Mekler, Elizabeth
Truong, Ann
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description Congenital patellar dislocation (CPD) is a rare deformity in children that involves a laterally displaced patella. While potentially identified in early childhood using diagnostic imaging techniques, it is often misdiagnosed at birth, creating pain and mobility issues as the child grows. Dislocation of the patella is permanent and manually irreducible, often manifesting with flexion contracture of the knee, genu valgum, external tibial torsion, and foot deformity. Surgical correction is the treatment of choice in order to prevent future sequelae. We herein present a case of CPD in a four-year-old Asian male who was initially misdiagnosed before undergoing successful surgical repair using the Roux-Goldthwait technique.
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spelling pubmed-87196022022-01-04 Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation Nguyen, Hiep Mekler, Elizabeth Truong, Ann Nguyen, Nghi Iqbal, Enjolina Kidron, Ariel Cureus Pediatric Surgery Congenital patellar dislocation (CPD) is a rare deformity in children that involves a laterally displaced patella. While potentially identified in early childhood using diagnostic imaging techniques, it is often misdiagnosed at birth, creating pain and mobility issues as the child grows. Dislocation of the patella is permanent and manually irreducible, often manifesting with flexion contracture of the knee, genu valgum, external tibial torsion, and foot deformity. Surgical correction is the treatment of choice in order to prevent future sequelae. We herein present a case of CPD in a four-year-old Asian male who was initially misdiagnosed before undergoing successful surgical repair using the Roux-Goldthwait technique. Cureus 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8719602/ /pubmed/34987941 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20082 Text en Copyright © 2021, Nguyen et al. https://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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Nguyen, Hiep
Mekler, Elizabeth
Truong, Ann
Nguyen, Nghi
Iqbal, Enjolina
Kidron, Ariel
Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation
title Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation
title_full Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation
title_fullStr Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation
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title_short Presentation and Repair of Serial Misdiagnosed Congenital Patellar Dislocation
title_sort presentation and repair of serial misdiagnosed congenital patellar dislocation
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987941
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20082
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