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British Journal of Sports Medicine 2000;34:467; doi:10.1136/bjsm.34.6.467
Copyright © 2000 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
Br J Sports Med 2000; 34:467
© 2000 the British Journal of Sports Medicine

Injuries of the sporting knee

I Corry1, J Webb2

1 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, N Ireland
2 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

This article is the third in the series. It is written by John King who is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. He has been active for many years in BASEM management and in postgraduate sports medicine education. His special interest is knee surgery and he has published several papers on the subject of jumper's knee and other lesions of the patellar tendon. This review is in two sections covering patellar dislocation and patellar tendinopathy. Anterior knee pain and patellar fractures were not part of the author's brief for the article, while lesions of articular cartilage are to be included in the next paper in the series.

There is current interest in the medial patellofemoral ligament and the potential for its reconstruction as a major restraint in preventing lateral displacement.1 This will become a topical consideration alongside the techniques described in the review. The . . . [Full text of this article]


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