ISPUB.COM The Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery Volume 13 Number 1 1 of 4 Habitual Dislocation Of The Patella K Cemil, G Unal, T Ozman, D Polat, C Yunsur Citation K Cemil, G Unal, T Ozman, D Polat, C Yunsur. Habitual Dislocation Of The Patella. The Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery. 2008 Volume 13 Number 1. Abstract CASE A 27-year-old woman was seen in the emergency department, reporting pain and swelling in the right knee. It was learned from her history that she had distorted her knee while getting off the minibus. She was interested in the folk dance and she had patellar dislocation twice before. On examination, the affected knee was swollen, and there was tenderness over the lateral condyle. It was detected from her direct radiography that she had dislocation of patella (Figure-1). Figure 1 Figure 1: Patella dislocation on the plain knee graphy After sedoanalgesia, after the extension of right knee, patella was successfully reduced to normal anatomic position by pushing it from lateral to medial. Right long leg splint application she was discharged. Three weeks later, on the control examination it was detected that patella was in its normal location. On the magnetic resonance imaging of knee we detected subchondral contusion of lateral condyle of right femur, and Grade II rupture of right knee medial meniscus posterior horn (Figure-2, 3). In this paper we aimed to