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  • Title: Fabella syndrome in a professional football player: A case report and literature review.
    Author: Nguyen DQ, Do TD, Van Nguyen L, Mai VD, Do CD.
    Journal: Int J Surg Case Rep; 2022 Apr; 93():106919. PubMed ID: 35303607.
    Abstract:
    INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Fabella syndrome is a rare cause of posterolateral knee pain. The definitive diagnosis and management of this syndrome remain unclear. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 19-year-old patient who is a Vietnamese professional football player. He presented with persistent pain in the posterolateral aspect of the knee joint for 12 months that was unrelated to trauma. He was treated conservatively for 6 months without any improvement in the previous hospital. He was diagnosed with fabella syndrome and underwent open surgery to remove the bone. Evaluation after surgery 12 weeks revealed the symptoms disappeared and he was able to return to practice. CLINICAL DISCUSSION: In order to diagnose fabella syndrome, the clinicians need to be vigilant and base on the clinical signs as well as imaging to exclude other causes of posterolateral knee pain. Conservative therapy is always the first choice of treatment although the recurrence rate is high, especially in professional athletes. If the initial conservative therapies failed, the fabella surgical removal surgery should be made in athletes. CONCLUSION: Fabella syndrome is a rare cause of posterolateral knee pain in professional athletes. The definitive diagnosis and management of this syndrome remain unclear. Our case shows that surgical removal of the bone fragments can be considered if failure after the initial conservative therapies.
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