Patellar Fracture Following Surgery for Patellar Instability

Overview

Journal Knee

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2004 Apr 7

PMID 15066623

Citations 3

Authors

N Muthukumar

P D Angus

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Abstract

We present a case of patellar fracture in a teenager that followed a soft tissue realignment surgery for patellar instability. We propose that this fracture was due to disruption of the blood supply to the patella as a result of the procedure. To our knowledge this complication, which has been documented following Total Knee Arthroplasty, has not been documented in the English literature before.

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