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Bilateral metachronous rupture of the patellar tendon
1Sports Medicine Service, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
American Journal of Orthopedics (Belle Mead, N.J.)
|June 20, 2001
Abstract:
We present a case of a 37-year-old man who sustained a rupture of his left patellar tendon approximately 48 hours after rupturing his right patellar tendon. This temporal pattern illustrates two important aspects of patellar tendon injury-that rupture of the degenerated patellar tendon may occur without any prodromal warning and that it may elude detection even if the patient is examined by several physicians.