Proximal "tube" realignment of the patella for chondromalacia patellae
Insall, J.; Bullough, P.G.; Burstein, A.H.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 144: 63-69
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-921X PMID: 535252 Document Number: 154108
In young people complaining of patellar pain there is often an anatomic basis (an increased quadriceps angle or a high-riding patella). Forty-eight knees with one or other of these abnormalities underwent proximal quadriceps realignment. The results were excellent or good in 94%. Shaving of chondromalacic cartilage was also done in 11 knees but did not seem to improve the results, and is not now recommended except for "blister" lesions. Extensor mechanism dysplasia is an etiologically correct name for the disorder and therefore preferable to "chondromalacia patellae."