Dashboard Fracture of Patella

Fracture of the Patella

judgment of the surgeon in charge of the case. I will briefly mention the five methods of treatment that are now in fashion, and offer some remarks on each. Firstly, the plan without operation. This, the old one, consists of rest with the application of splint and bandages. There are various excellent ways of drawing the fragments together, and perhaps in almost the majority of cases this metho...

Fracture of the Patella

are admitted into the Jamsetjee Jeejeeblioy Hospital, and thus I have not had a very large experience, even after a considerable number of years, of this accident. The usual plan has been, up to quite recently, to treat these fractures by the ordinary back splint and pieces of stickingplaster shaped like a horse-shoe applied above and below so as to approximate the fragments as much as possible...

Stress fracture of the patella.

Stress fractures are rarely an indication for surgical treatment. In our case we decided to operate on the patient because of distraction of the fragments. Solid bony healing took longer than in traumatic fractures, but the good functional result confirmed our regimen.

Treatment of Fracture of the Patella

Propagation of stress fracture of the patella.

Anterior knee pain in athletes is common and usually self limited. There should be a high index of suspicion and low threshold for special imaging in cases with acute onset and specific tenderness. The risk of propagation of stress fracture of the patella in athletes is highlighted. The case report presented illustrates the potential sequence of events.