inflammation and swelling of the bursa in front of the kneecap, caused esp by constant kneeling on a hard surface
another name for housemaid's knee
Examples of 'prepatellar bursitis' in a sentence
prepatellar bursitis
If untreated, prepatellar bursitis can progress to patellar osteomyelitis.
Panagiotis Kratimenos, Ioannis Koutroulis, Dante Marconi, Jennifer Ding, ChristosPlakas, Margaret Fisher 2014, 'Septic Bursitis in an 8-Year-Old Boy', Case Reports in Pediatricshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/823921. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Brucellosis presenting as prepatellar bursitis has already been reported.
F. M. Almajid 2017, 'A Rare Form of Brucella Bursitis with Negative Serology: A Case Report and LiteratureReview', Case Reports in Infectious Diseaseshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9802532. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Prepatellar bursitis and septic bursitis are the other common causes of a swollen patellar bursa.
Macit Kalçık, Lütfi Öcal, Mustafa Ozan Gürsoy, Mahmut Yesin, Mustafa Yıldız, MehmetÖzkan 2016, 'Spontaneous Prepatellar Bursa Hematoma in a Patient with Mechanical Prosthetic HeartValve', Koşuyolu Heart Journalhttp://www.kosuyoluheartjournal.com/managete/fu_folder/2016-1/2016-19-1-044-046.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Fifteen patients had prepatellar bursitis, 13 had olecranon bursitis and 4 had ankle bursitis.
Azad Yıldırım, Ahmet Kapukaya , Yılmaz Mertsoy , Şehmus Yiğit , Mehmet Akif Çaçan 2015, 'Treatment of nonseptic bursitis with endoscopic surgery', Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigationshttp://www.jceionline.org/upload/sayi/28/JCEI-01185.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A 72 year-old-male was referred to our institution with recalcitrant prepatellar bursitis.
Ivor S. Vanhegan, B. Dala-Ali, L. Verhelst, P. Mallucci, Fares S. Haddad 2012, 'The Morel-Lavallée Lesion as a Rare Differential Diagnosis for Recalcitrant Bursitisof the Knee: Case Report and Literature Review', Case Reports in Orthopedicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/593193. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)