Eighty patients were diagnosed on MRI as having had transient lateral patellar dislocation. Their mean age was 23.9 years (SD 7.5). Forty patients (50.0%) had co-existent MCL injuries. These injuries ...

A more thorough clinical examination revealed a high-riding patellar with the knee hyper-extended and a patellar dimple, consistent with superior patellar dislocation ... Subsequent MRI demonstrated ...

In this case report, we present an elderly patient with an intra-articular horizontal dislocation of the patella without any other bony or ligamentous lesions seen in a postreduction MRI. We conducted ...

If an MRI shows that bone or cartilage has been damaged on the ... The success rate of surgery for patellar instability is very high. More than 95% of patients have no more dislocations, and more than ...

The Royal London Hospital, London, UK Director, Academic Department of Sports Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK [email protected] This paper ...

What is patellofemoral or patellar (kneecap) instability? Patients who have a tracking problem in the patellofemoral joint, where the patella (kneecap) does not stay in the groove on the femur, are ...

identifies in the context of a technically carefully conducted systematic literature search eight risk factors regarding the risk of recurrent dislocation after primary patellar dislocation (age ...