Jerome J Terrence Jose, Varghese Mathew, Sankaran Balu, Thomas Simon
Department of Orthopaedics, St Stephen's Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Orthop. 2008 Apr;42(2):228-30. doi: 10.4103/0019-5413.40264.
Absence of patella as an isolated anomaly is extremely rare. It is usually absent as part of a syndrome, most commonly hereditary arthro-onchyo-dysplasia (Nail Patella Syndrome). We present a case of congenital bilateral absence of patella in a nine-year-old boy with no associated anomalies.
孤立性髌骨缺如极为罕见。它通常作为综合征的一部分而缺如,最常见的是遗传性关节甲发育不良(指甲髌骨综合征)。我们报告一例9岁男孩先天性双侧髌骨缺如且无相关异常的病例。