Patella incarceration with associated patella fracture: a rare case of a paediatric patient with no associated femoral fracture.
We describe the case of a 15-year-old girl who presented to the Accident and Emergency Department with right knee pain and a tense effusion following a twist and fall directly onto her right knee. An MRI scan demonstrated that she had an incarcerated dislocated patella with an associated patella avulsion fracture. This required open reduction. Open reduction and fixation was performed using suture anchors. We feel that this case is particularly pertinent since nearly all previous case reports describe an incarcerated patella with an associated femur fracture. Furthermore, no previous case reports have been published in a child.
['Morley|Hannah Louise|HL|', 'Sharma|Aadhar|A|', 'Whittingham-Jones|Paul|P|']
D000058:Accidental Falls D000293:Adolescent D003937:Diagnosis, Differential D005260:Female D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal D000071562:Fractures, Avulsion D006801:Humans D007718:Knee Injuries D007719:Knee Joint D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging D000070799:Open Fracture Reduction D031222:Patellar Dislocation D053441:Suture Anchors D016896:Treatment Outcome
knee injuries knee laxity orthopaedic and trauma surgery orthopaedics