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Posttraumatic dislodgement of the infrapatellar fat pad: an unusual type of superolateral impingement
L Mathieu1, M Chetouani, D Janku
1Georges-Pompidou European Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 20/40, rue Leblanc, 75908 Paris cedex 15, France. laurent_tom2@yahoo.fr
Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Surgery & Research : OTSR
|October 18, 2011
Abstract:
The authors report a rare case of dislodgement of the infrapatellar fat pad induced by traumatic hyperflexion. Because of the unusual clinical presentation, open excision was performed to exclude a possible tumoral etiology. This entity seems to be an acute form of superolateral fat pad impingement.
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