title: [Diagnosis and therapy of traumatic patellar dislocation in the athlete].
abstract: Traumatic dislocations of the patella usually occur in sport activities. The review of our in-patient collective between 1980 and 1985 showed twenty traumatic dislocations of the patella among 1106 sport injuries. Most patients were adolescents. Seventeen of these injuries resulted from a typical valgus-flexion-external rotation-mechanism. Only three cases followed direct trauma. The therapy of choice in fresh traumatic dislocations of the patella in sportsmen is a suture of the medial retinaculum and if necessary refixation of osteochondral fragments. We performed operative treatment in sixteen of our own patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010329:Patella / Q000293:injuries*; D014945:Wound Healing
vernacular_title: Diagnostik und Therapie der traumatischen Patellaluxation beim Sportler Diagnosis and Therapy of Traumatic Dislocation of the Patella in Sportsmen.