TY - CHAP
T1 - Medial patellar instability: A little known cause of anterior knee pain
AU - Sanchis-Alfonso, Vicente
AU - Ramirez-Fuentes, Cristina
AU - Martinez-Soriano, Francisco
AU - Monllau, Joan C.
AU - Merchant, Alan C.
PY - 2014/3/1
Y1 - 2014/3/1
N2 - © 2014 ISAKOS. All rights reserved. Anterior knee pain (AKP) is one of the most common patient complaints heard by orthopedic surgeons. A wide variety of causes of AKP have been ascribed to it. Medial patellar instability (MPI) is an objective condition with its own personality provoking incapacitating AKP that should be included in the differential diagnosis of AKP patients, above all in disabling AKP patients after realignment surgery. However, this condition can be difficult to diagnose because it is not well described in the medical literature. Its clinical repercussion was identified at the end of the 1980s. We can now state that it is an objective cause of AKP and that it is more frequent than we had thought, although it might be underdiagnosed because it is still not a well-known entity. The first author has seen many patients with MPI who have seen more than three physicians without a true diagnosis of their condition.
AB - © 2014 ISAKOS. All rights reserved. Anterior knee pain (AKP) is one of the most common patient complaints heard by orthopedic surgeons. A wide variety of causes of AKP have been ascribed to it. Medial patellar instability (MPI) is an objective condition with its own personality provoking incapacitating AKP that should be included in the differential diagnosis of AKP patients, above all in disabling AKP patients after realignment surgery. However, this condition can be difficult to diagnose because it is not well described in the medical literature. Its clinical repercussion was identified at the end of the 1980s. We can now state that it is an objective cause of AKP and that it is more frequent than we had thought, although it might be underdiagnosed because it is still not a well-known entity. The first author has seen many patients with MPI who have seen more than three physicians without a true diagnosis of their condition.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84924391920
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-54965-6_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-54965-6_12
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783642549656
SN - 3642549640
SN - 9783642549649
SP - 79
EP - 92
BT - The Patellofemoral Joint: State of the Art in Evaluation and Management
ER -