Title: POCUS for Knee Pain<br/>Author: Alexis Salerno<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/1403/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p>
        <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Pt presents to the emergency department with knee pain. </span></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">You decide to ultrasound the proximal knee. You place your ultrasound probe in the midline of the knee with your probe marker towards the patient's head. </span></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">What is the diagnosis?</span></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">The answer is a quadriceps tendon rupture with femur fracture.</span></span></p>
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