Acta Medica Okayama volume72 issue1
2018-02 発行
Yamamoto, Norio
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Unnan City Hospital
Miki, Takaaki
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Unnan City Hospital
Nishiyama, Akihiro
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Unnan City Hospital
Dan’ura, Tomoyuki
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Unnan City Hospital
Matsui, Yuzuru
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Unnan City Hospital
Ozaki, Toshifumi
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This is the first report of extensive bilateral patellar tendon ossification occurring over a prolonged time after a unilateral knee injury. An 84-year-old Japanese man with a spinal cord injury caused by a burst fracture of the T12 vertebra presented with a bony hard prominence on the left knee, which was injured in a traffic accident when he was 77 years old. Radiography revealed extensive ossification of the bilateral patellar tendons. We review the English literature with a focus on the localization of bilateral heterotopic ossification of the knee in patients who had a central nervous system injury.