Bilateral Knee Pain in an Adolescent Girl: A Case of Chondromalacia Patella
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Patella alta and chondromalacia.
The Insall-Salvati method of determining the position of the patella by radiography was employed in fifty-one patients with chondromalacia patellae that had been proved at arthrotomy. There was no definite relationship between chondromalacia patellae and patella alta. There was, however, a highly significant statistical difference between the ratio of the length of the patella to that of the pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1300-0381,2146-8990
DOI: 10.5336/pediatr.2016-52952