Rupture of quadriceps tendon in a patient with postanoxic choreoathetosis

Tatiana Vander Department of Spinal Rehabilitation, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]

Beniamin Kish Department of Spinal Rehabilitation, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel; Orthopedic Service, Meir Hospital, Kfar-Saba, Israel

Simon Strauss Department of Radiology, Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Jacob Ronen Department of Spinal Rehabilitation, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Vadim Bluvstein Department of Spinal Rehabilitation, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel

Amiram Catz Department of Spinal Rehabilitation, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract

Purpose. To describe a case of quadriceps tendon rupture in a patient with postanoxic choreoathetotic movements.

Case report: A 20-year-old man was admitted to a rehabilitation hospital after anoxic brain injury. As a result of the injury, he developed continuous flowing choreoathetotic movements. He contracted fever and swollen and painful right knee, and only when periarticular edema decreased did a suprapatellar gap appear and quadriceps tendon rupture was diagnosed.

Conclusions: Considering the possibility of tendon rupture when evaluating a patient with non-volitional movements and ‘arthritic’ presentation in a rehabilitation setting, may prevent delay of quadriceps surgical repair.

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