%0 Journal Article %T Infrapatellar Fat Pad Para-Articular Osteochondroma: A Ten-Year Follow-up and Review %J Archives of Trauma Research %I Kashan University of Medical Sciences %Z 2251-953X %A Bombaci, Hasan %A Bilgin, Emre %D 2015 %\ 08/01/2015 %V 4 %N 3 %P - %! Infrapatellar Fat Pad Para-Articular Osteochondroma: A Ten-Year Follow-up and Review %K Para-Articular Osteochondroma %K Chondroma %K knee %K Infrapatellar %R 10.5812/atr.28381 %X Introduction Para-articular masses are not clear enough in terms of their etiology and nomenclature. Although surgical removal of the mass is the preferred treatment, long term follow-up after surgical treatment has not been reported yet. The current study presents a patient with the osteo-cartilaginous mass of infrapatellar region, diagnosed after a trauma. This case has the longest follow-up period in the literature. Case Presentation A 52-year-old female patient referred after falling down on her right knee. Lateral radiographs of the knee revealed a mass in the infrapatellar area. The case was treated surgically by total excision of the mass. The mass was extra-capsular with lobular and irregular shape. After mass removal the clinical course was uneventful and at the 10-year follow-up, no signs of recurrence were evident clinically or radiologically. Conclusions Tumor-like lesions within the infrapatellar fat pad should remind the para-articular osteochondroma. Although its etiology has not yet been elicited, operative removal of the mass is the preferred treatment of choice and also curative in long-term follow-up. %U https://archtrauma.kaums.ac.ir/article_62226_c5b3502594b905c9159e681031d8a99f.pdf