Patella alta and chondromalacia.
The Insall-Salvati method of determining the position of the patella by radiography was employed in fifty-one patients with chondromalacia patellae that had been proved at arthrotomy. There was no definite relationship between chondromalacia patellae and patella alta. There was, however, a highly significant statistical difference between the ratio of the length of the patella to that of the patellar tendon in normal men and women.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002357:Cartilage Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010329:Patella / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013710:Tendons / Q000033:anatomy & histology