Locked knee?
- Emergency Department, St George’s Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London, SW17 0QT, UK
- Thiagarajan Jaiganesh, jaiganesh{at}doctors.org.uk
- Published 28 September 2009
We report a very unusual case of a 60-year-old woman who presented to our Emergency Department (ED) after accidentally having fallen onto a key which was half embedded into the lateral half of her right knee joint. After a radiographic diagnosis (fig 1), the key was removed under sedation in the ED. She …