Clinical outcomes after surgery for knee multiligament injuries were comparable between patients with and without medial patellofemoral ligament injuries.

BMC Musculoskelet Disord · 2025 · PMC12344844 · PMID 40804629

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They reported that patients with MPFL tears did not have significantly different IKDC scores than patients without MPFL tears did, but the difference was close to being statistically significant (79.4 vs. 65.5, P = 0.07).

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