Patella Fracture Diagnosis

The doctor can diagnosis of patellar fracture base on clinical symptoms and X-ray. Clinical highly doubt there is such as patellar fracture, but lateral X-ray films did not show, they can take X-ray film for the patella. After confirm diagnosis of patellar fracture, should determine the extent of extensor retinaculum injury to select treatment.

If the fracture displacement of greater than or equal to 5mm, then prompted the majority of extensor retinaculum rupture, such as fracture displacement of less than 5mm, and can take the initiative to fully straighten the knee, the extensor device that is not obvious injury; such as can not completely straighten the tips at the same time there is varying degrees of injury. Puncture to the knee after the injection of local anesthetics blood to help the implementation of the above examinations.