Insidious bilateral infrapatellar tendon rupture in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Vol. 39 (6) , 592-595
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.39.6.592
Abstract
A woman with systemic lupus erythematosus developed insidious bilateral infrapatellar tendon rupture initially diagnosed as steroid myopathy. Simultaneous loss of extension at the knee due to quadriceps or infrapatellar tendon ruptures is reviewed.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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