Anatom3DPatellar part of left knee
Pars patellaris genus sinistri · Čéšková část levého kolena
Skeleton
Looks like
The front of the knee around the kneecap, including the tendons above and below it and the bursae in front.
What it does
Transmits the pull of the thigh muscle to the shin to straighten the leg.
Keeping it well
Kneeling can inflame the bursa in front of the kneecap; a red, hot swelling with fever needs a doctor (infected bursitis).
Related conditions
- ACL & meniscus injury
- Acromegaly
- Baker's (popliteal) cyst
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Growing pains
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Reactive arthritis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Septic arthritis
- Varicose veins
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency