Natural history of anterior knee pain: a 14- to 20-year follow-up of nonoperative management.
We describe a consecutive series of girls with idiopathic anterior knee pain in adolescence and who were treated nonoperatively. At a mean follow-up of 16 years, 22% had no pain, 71% thought that their symptoms were better than at presentation, 88% used analgesics rarely or not at all, and 90% conti...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1998
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