Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4062018 | The Journal of Arthroplasty | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Injury of the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve (ISN) may be caused by a surgical laceration or trauma about the knee and can result in formation of a painful neuroma. There has been no report of knee stiffness after a total knee arthroplasty secondary to a painful neuroma of the ISN. In this report, we present a patient with pain and severe stiffness of her knee after a total knee arthroplasty. A neuroma of the ISN was resected, and the pain as well as the stiffness of the knee resolved. A source of pain such as a neuroma should be considered as a cause of reversible knee stiffness or “pseudoarthrofibrosis” after a total knee arthroplasty.
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Authors
Sergey M. Kachar, Kristopher M. Williams, Henry A. Finn,