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01-04-2014 | Orthopaedic Surgery
Patella cubiti: a case report and literature review
Authors:
Ravi Mittal, Venkatesan Sampath Kumar, Tushar Gupta
Published in:
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
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Issue 4/2014
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Abstract
Patella cubiti is a rare elbow anomaly in which either the entire olecranon or a part of it remains separate from the proximal ulna. Pain and stiffness are the usual presenting symptoms while some patients are diagnosed incidentally following a minor trauma. Our case report is of a 24-year-old male wrestler with bilateral patella cubiti which was painful on right side and asymptomatic on the left. We also mention an additional cause of pain in patella cubiti—intra-articular loose bodies. These loose bodies were removed surgically and the patient remained asymptomatic at 6-months follow-up. Presence of growth disturbance in the secondary epiphyseal centre of first lumbar vertebra supports the ‘developmental theory’ of origin of patella cubiti. A compilation of data available in the literature on patella cubiti has been included.