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Knee Examination

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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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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishal Kumar & Rajesh Kumar Rajnish

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  1. Education and Research (PGIMER), Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Sarvdeep S. Dhatt

  2. Education and Research (PGIMER), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Sharad Prabhakar

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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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