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Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease

contusion and subsequent tendonitis in the proximal attachment of the patellar tendon
  • can be followed by calcification, ossification, or frank inferior pole avulsion fractures that produce one or more distinct ossicles.

per Stedman's dictionary: "apophysitis of the distal pole of the patella"

symptoms:

  • tenderness and soft tissue swelling over the lower pole of the patella
  • aggregated by activity

xray findings:

  • osseous fragmentation of patella

Brian Funaki, MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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