Forensic Identification of Bipartite Patella Misdiagnosed as Patella Fracture

Bipartite 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.

Bipartite Patella: MR imaging characteristics and frequency

Background: Bipartite patella has been described as a developmental variation, usually involving the superolateral aspect of the patella, in which peripheral, accessory ossification centers fail to fuse the with the main cartilaginous anlage as it ossifies [1]. It has been reported in 2 to 3 % of the population [2]. Occasionally, bipartite patella can be a source of anterior knee pain particula...