UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Orthopedics

Title: POCUS for Knee Pain

Keywords: POCUS, Knee Pain, Tendon Rupture (PubMed Search)

Posted: 6/5/2023 by Alexis Salerno, MD
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Question

Pt presents to the emergency department with knee pain.

You decide to ultrasound the proximal knee. You place your ultrasound probe in the midline of the knee with your probe marker towards the patient's head. 

What is the diagnosis?

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The answer is a quadriceps tendon rupture with femur fracture.

 

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