Citation

Li WW, Lu CC. Emerg. Med. J. 2021; 38(6): 449-473.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/emermed-2020-210054

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A 60-year-old male patient presented to the ED with a painful deformity of the left knee following a motor vehicle accident. He was unable to actively perform knee flexion and extension. Physical examination showed a swollen knee with fixed valgus-flexed deformation. The appearance of the knee joint revealed a puckered skin with a recession at the medial joint line (figure 1). The patient denied sensational loss or numbness of his distal limb with intact pulsation in distal limb dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial …

Language: en

Keywords

fractures and dislocations; trauma, extremity