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The Failed Patella. What Can We Do?

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The title of this chapter has been borrowed from the world of spinal surgery (“The Failed Spine”). It is a term that we are going to use to describe the situation of those patients who did not have a successful outcome after a surgery that was carried out to resolve Anterior knee pain (AKP).

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Sanchis-Alfonso & Julio Domenech-Fernandez

  2. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Robert A. Teitge

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Sanchis-Alfonso, V., Domenech-Fernandez, J., Teitge, R.A. (2023). The Failed Patella. What Can We Do?. In: Sanchis-Alfonso, V. (eds) Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09767-6_10

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