Bilateral Stress Fracture at the Inferior Pole of Patella in a Juvenile Athlete.
10.4055/jkoa.2015.50.1.71
- Author:
Je Gyun CHON
1
;
Bong Ju LEE
;
Dong Hyuk SUN
;
Sang Yeop SHIN
Author Information
1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sun Medical Center, Daejeon, Korea. bonjoolee@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
stress fractures;
patella;
children;
athletes
- MeSH:
Athletes*;
Child;
Diagnosis;
Fractures, Stress*;
Humans;
Patella*
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
2015;50(1):71-75
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
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.
