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SUBMITTER: Pandya NK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2565031 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pandya Nirav K NK Janik Luke L Chan Gilbert G Wells Lawrence L
Clinical orthopaedics and related research 20080722 11
Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) insertion-site osteochondral avulsions in children, particularly from the tibia, are not commonly seen by orthopaedic surgeons. Because of the rarity of these injuries, careful attention to the specific physical examination and imaging findings seen with these injuries is necessary so that the proper diagnosis can be made. Osteochondral avulsions of the PCL can be missed on plain radiographs in skeletally immature patients, and therefore magnetic resonance imagi ...[more]