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Minimal trauma knee hemarthrosis

P R Ames1, N Maffulli, G Capasso

  • 1University of Napoli Federico II Medical School, Institute of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Disorders, Italy.

Bulletin (Hospital for Joint Diseases (New York, N.Y.))
|January 1, 1996
PubMed

Four patients who suffered from minimal trauma knee hemarthrosis are presented. In all patients, the cause of the hemarthrosis was not the traumatic event in itself, but an underlying clotting or collagen disorder. The necessity of interaction between the orthopaedic surgeon and a coagulation unit is stressed.

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