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KMID : 0361620150500010071
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Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
2015 Volume.50 No. 1 p.71 ~ p.75
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Bilateral Stress Fracture at the Inferior Pole of Patella in a Juvenile Athlete
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Chon Je-Gyun
Lee Bong-Ju
Sun Dong-Hyuk
Shin Sang-Yeop
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Abstract
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Patellar fractures in children occur rarely in approximately 1% of all pediatric fractures and 57% of these are osteochondral or cartilaginous avulsion fractures, a type of sleeve fracture. They may be missed in diagnosis due to small bony fragment on simple radiographs, and they always occur ipsilaterally; however, only a few cases of bilateral patellar fracture of the inferior pole have been reported. We experienced an 11 year-old patient an athlete, who suffered repetitive minor trauma, with a stress fracture, which occurred at the inferior pole of the patella bilaterally, and we report on this unusual case with a literature review.
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KEYWORD
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stress fractures, patella, children, athletes
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