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Prepatellar BursitisAka: Prepatellar Bursa, Patellar Bursitis
- Mechanism
- Direct trauma to anterior patella without rotation
- Causes
- Chronic Kneeling (e.g. carpet layers, gardeners)
- Acute direct trauma
- Symptoms
- Anterior Knee Pain and swelling
- Signs
- Tenderness over prepatellar bursa
- Anterior knee overlying patella
- Dome shaped swelling
- Differential diagnosis
- Patella Contusion
- Patella Fracture
- Intra-articular knee injury
- Septic knee
- Management
- NSAIDs
- Local Ice Therapy
- Eliminate pressure overlying patella
- Prepatellar Bursa Injection (refractory cases)
- References
- Greene (2001) Musculoskeletal Care, AAOS, p. 335-6
- Cardone (2003) Am Fam Physician 67(10):2147
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