Abstract
We report the scintigraphy-appearances of painful bipartite patella in 25-year-old man a\(2{\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em\lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$}}\) years history of unexplained patellar pain. Painful bipartite patella is a rare cause of chronic post-traumatic patellar pain. Bone scintigraphy, by demonstrating increased uptake by the painful accessory bipartite fragment, appears to be an imaging method of choice in the diagnosis of this condition.
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Iossifidis, A., Brueton, R.N. & Nunan, T.O. Bone-scintigraphy in painful bipartite patella. Eur J Nucl Med 22, 1212–1213 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00800607
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