Bilateral absence of the patella in nail-patella syndrome: Delayed presentation with anterior knee instability

Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Mavrodontidis, Alexandras N ^a   Zalavras, Charalampos G ^a   Papadonikolakis, Anastasios ^b   Soucacos, Panayotis N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior knee instability; Nail patella syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 5044234456     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2004.07.011     Document Type: Article

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