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Case report. An unusual cause of a patient presenting with an acutely locked knee: multiple benign fat pad cysts

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Benign ganglion (synovial) cysts within the knee are uncommon and especially so when located in the infrapatellar fad pad. They cause many non-specific symptoms but usually present as a swelling. We report the case of a young gentleman with multiple benign synovial cysts within the fat pad causing a locked knee, which was treated with arthroscopically assisted open excision. We can find no previous reports of isolated multiple fat pad cysts causing acute locking of the knee.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma, The Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5PD, UK

    Alex Trompeter & Chris Servant

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Trompeter, A., Servant, C. Case report. An unusual cause of a patient presenting with an acutely locked knee: multiple benign fat pad cysts. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 129, 1123–1125 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-009-0838-4

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