A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle

The literature describes a few case reports of bilateral accessory popliteus muscle, a rare variant of the popliteus muscle. We report a case of a 24-year-old male patient with acute pain and inability to flex the left knee, without a traumatic event. Additionally, the patient reported mild sensitiv...

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Autores principales: Calbi, Roberto, Maggialetti, Nicola, Sgobba, Angela Daniela, Lucarelli, Nicola Maria, Cofone, Federico, Stabile Ianora, Amato Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8914249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35282318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.01.061
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author Calbi, Roberto
Maggialetti, Nicola
Sgobba, Angela Daniela
Lucarelli, Nicola Maria
Cofone, Federico
Stabile Ianora, Amato Antonio
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description The literature describes a few case reports of bilateral accessory popliteus muscle, a rare variant of the popliteus muscle. We report a case of a 24-year-old male patient with acute pain and inability to flex the left knee, without a traumatic event. Additionally, the patient reported mild sensitive symptoms in the left calf region and no pain in the right knee. The patient underwent a series of other examinations which culminated in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that showed an accessory popliteus muscle. The comparative study of the contralateral knee showed no evidence of this anatomic variant.
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spelling pubmed-89142492022-03-12 A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle Calbi, Roberto Maggialetti, Nicola Sgobba, Angela Daniela Lucarelli, Nicola Maria Cofone, Federico Stabile Ianora, Amato Antonio Radiol Case Rep Case Report The literature describes a few case reports of bilateral accessory popliteus muscle, a rare variant of the popliteus muscle. We report a case of a 24-year-old male patient with acute pain and inability to flex the left knee, without a traumatic event. Additionally, the patient reported mild sensitive symptoms in the left calf region and no pain in the right knee. The patient underwent a series of other examinations which culminated in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that showed an accessory popliteus muscle. The comparative study of the contralateral knee showed no evidence of this anatomic variant. Elsevier 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8914249/ /pubmed/35282318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.01.061 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Calbi, Roberto
Maggialetti, Nicola
Sgobba, Angela Daniela
Lucarelli, Nicola Maria
Cofone, Federico
Stabile Ianora, Amato Antonio
A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
title A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
title_full A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
title_fullStr A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
title_short A rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: Evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
title_sort rare case of chronic pain and atraumatic inability to flex the knee: evidence of a unilateral accessory popliteus muscle
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8914249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35282318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.01.061
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