In patients with PFI, the severity of patellofemoral incongruence was not associated with injury mechanism or cartilage damage. However, increased lateralization of the patellar tendon (TT-TG distance) and patella alta (patellar tendon ratio) correlated with injury to the contralateral knee requiring bilateral MPFLR.
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