Citation

Berg EE. J. Pediatr. Orthop. 1995; 15(3): 302-303.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopaedics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia 29203, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7790483

Abstract

Traumatic patella alta in children occurs either distal to the patellar tendon as a tibial tubercle apophyseal fracture or proximally as an osteochondral sleeve fracture of the inferior patellar pole. Acute surgical exploration in a pediatric case of a knee extensor mechanism rupture revealed both proximal and distal (bipolar) patellar tendon pathology.

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