Incidence and Risk Factors of Acute Patellar Tendon Rupture, Repair Failure, and Return to Activity in the Active-Duty Military Population.

DR, Fredericks; SE, Slaven; CF, McCarthy; ME, Dingle; DI, Brooks; TJ, Steelman; MA, Donohue; DW, Griffin; JR, Giuliani; JF, Dickens

doi:10.1177/03635465211026963

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Incidence and Risk Factors of Acute Patellar Tendon Rupture, Repair Failure, and Return to Activity in the Active-Duty Military Population.

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Fredericks DR

Slaven SE

McCarthy CF

Abstract

Background Patellar tendon ruptures have a reported incidence of 0.68 per 100,000 person-years in the general population. The epidemiology of surgically treated patellar tendon ruptures in the US military has yet to be reported, which would provide opportunity for identification of risk factors for ...

Subject

Surgical treatment

epidemiology

risk factors

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