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Patella fracture surgery linked to rare symptomatic pulmonary embolism in a 42-year-old female.
Highlights the rare but serious risk of symptomatic pulmonary embolism following surgical treatment of patella fractures.
May prompt vigilance for pulmonary embolism after patella fracture surgery; leaves open true incidence and prevention needs.
Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are serious and fatal complications in orthopedic surgery. Most cases of symptomatic pulmonary embolism in knee surgery have been reported after total knee arthroplasty, but rarely after patella fracture. We report on a case of symptomatic pulmonary embolism after surgical treatment of a patella fracture in a 42-year-old female patient.
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Kim et al. (2014) studied this question. Surgical treatment of a patella fracture resulted in a rare case of symptomatic pulmonary embolism in a 42-year-old female patient.
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