Osgood-Schlatter disease

Note the prominence and the ossification over the tibial tubercle (arrow). Persisting tenderness over an ossicle in the mature knee (dashed arrows) is an indication for excision.

From: Knee and tibia. In: Fundamentals of Pediatric Orthopedics, 5th ed, Staheli LT (Ed), Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia 2015. Copyright © 2015. Reproduced with permission from Wolters Kluwer Health. Unauthorized reproduction of this material is prohibited.

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