Take a Knee…
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Title
Take a Knee…
Subject
An otherwise healthy 17-year-old male presents to the ED after an ATV accident. He was riding at a low speed when he swerved to avoid a branch, lost control, forcing him to bail forward over the handlebars. He sustains a laceration to his knee during the fall, but suffers no other injuries. Exam of the right knee is notable for a 2.5 cm deep, jagged laceration (Figure 1), tenderness to the patella and a joint effusion, no palpable bony deformities, stable ligamentous exam, with the distal extremity neurovascularly intact. Radiographs of the knee are obtained:
Creator
Loconte, Matthew
Source
http://brownemblog.com/blog-1/2019/1/23/take-a-knee?rq=dina%20gozman
Publisher
Brown Emergency Medicine Blog
Date
April 12, 2019
Contributor
Reviewed by Gozman, Dina
Format
Blog post
Language
English
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Citation
Loconte, Matthew, “Take a Knee…,” Brown Emergency Medicine Digital Media Archives, accessed June 13, 2026, https://mail.bemcatalog.digitalscholarship.brown.edu/items/show/11.