Fracture of the patella after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is rare. Fourteen cases of patellar fracture after TKA identified from a series 557 TKAs are reviewed. The overall incidence of patellar ...

Surgeons must devise and implement calculated treatment algorithms when performing periprosthetic fracture revisions following total hip and total knee arthroplasties, according to a presenter here.In ...

Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean suffered a torn patellar tendon in his knee and is out for the remainder of the ...

Reported at the meeting of the Surgical Section of the Suffolk District Medical Society, May 6, 1891.

vch.ca The extensor mechanism (EM) of the knee comprises the quadriceps muscles and tendon, the patella, patellar tendon and supporting retinaculum (figure 1). Injuries of the EM are common and may be ...