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Knee Examination

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Abstract

The clinical examination of a knee is to evaluate following aspects:

  1. 1.

    Patello-femoral joint

  2. 2.

    Articular (meniscal and chondral) lesions and

  3. 3.

    Knee instability.

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Kumar, V., Rajnish, R.K. (2019). Knee Examination. In: Dhatt, S., Prabhakar, S. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Examination in Orthopedics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1235-9_10

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