Assertion: patella | /r/HasProperty | displaced
Facets:
value: slightly medially
type: OTHER
value: laterally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The usual mechanism of injury is a sudden internal rotation of the femur or valgus stress on the knee while the foot is fixed, causing the patella to be displaced laterally.
text: When the leg is extended (with relaxed quadriceps muscle) the patella can be displaced only very slightly medially and laterally, this movement being limited laterally by the retinaculum that passes from the patella to the fabella and by the joint capsule medial and lateral to the patella (Fig. 17.19).
text: The patella may also be displaced inferiorly known as patella baja.