The Knee
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 139-143 , April 2005

Reconstruction of ruptured patellar tendon after total knee arthroplasty: a case report and a description of an alternative fixation method

  • Timo Järvelä

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Hatanpää Hospital, Tampere, Hatanpäänkatu 24, PO Box 437, FIN 33101 Tampere, Finland. Tel.: +358-40-7331245; fax: +358-3-314773315.
    • Division of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Department of Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
    • Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Hatanpää Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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  • Pekka Halonen

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Coxa, Tampere, Finland
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  • Kati Järvelä

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Tampere University Hospital, Finland
  • ,
  • Teemu Moilanen

      Affiliations

    • Division of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Department of Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
    • Hospital Coxa, Tampere, Finland

,Accepted 26 May 2004.

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PII: S0968-0160(04)00126-7

doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2004.05.005

The Knee
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 139-143 , April 2005