Patella
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- Chondromalacia Patella is often used by physicians as a catch-all term to describe anterior knee pain that results from patellar malalignment.
- The patella is connected to the quadriceps tendon at the top of the patella.
- Radiographs will demonstrate the patella luxation if the patella is dislocated -at the time the radiographs are taken.
- Grade 3The patella is permanently luxated with torsion of the tibia and deviation of the tibial crest of between 30 degrees and 50 degrees from the cranial/caudal plane.
- Index of characters in the second figure A, B Projection [iugum eminens] of the patella of the right leg, entering the depression [facies patellaris] between the lower heads of the femur.
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