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Musculoskeletal Diseases > Joint Diseases > Joint Dislocations > Knee Dislocation
Wounds and Injuries > Joint Dislocations > Knee Dislocation
Wounds and Injuries > Leg Injuries > Knee Injuries > Knee Dislocation

Preferred term

Knee Dislocation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • do not confuse with PATELLAR DISLOCATION, which is displacement of the patella (knee cap) from the femoral groove

Scope note

  • Slippage of the FEMUR off the TIBIA.

History note

  • 2003

In other languages

  • polven sijoiltaanmeno

    Finnish

  • dislocatio genus
  • luxatio articulationis genus
  • luxatio articulationis tibiofibularis superioris
  • luxatio genus
  • polven dislokaatio
  • polven luksaatio
  • polvinivelen sijoiltaanmeno
  • ylemmän sääriluu-pohjeluunivelen sijoiltaanmeno
  • Knädislokation

    Swedish

  • Knäluxation

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D031221

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