TRAUMATIC PREPATELLAR NEURALGIA

Authors
Citation
Jo. Ikpeme et C. Gray, TRAUMATIC PREPATELLAR NEURALGIA, Injury, 26(4), 1995, pp. 225-229
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
InjuryACNP
ISSN journal
00201383
Volume
26
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
225 - 229
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-1383(1995)26:4<225:TPN>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Fourteen patients with painful knees caused by a direct blow to the fr ont of the knee have been studied. The exact diagnosis was often delay ed. Apart from pain, all patients had one common feature which they ma y not have been aware of, namely, marked tenderness localized towards the middle of the outer border of the patella. Surgical treatment in 1 1 patients, by excision of the subcutaneous tissue in the tender area and the prepatellar bursa, cured all cases. Histology of the excised s pecimens confirms the existence of a definite clinico-pathological ent ity.