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Lateral Knee Pain

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Lateral knee pain is a type of pain occurring on the outer side of the knee. Its onset may either be gradual over time or sudden following an injury. It may have a wide variety of symptoms. This type of pain may lead to suffering in the nature of a general ache or a sharp pain as well as to restricted mobility.

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  1. Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Murat Bozkurt & Metin Dogan

  2. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Yildirium Beyazit University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Murat Bozkurt

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Bozkurt, M., Dogan, M. (2015). Lateral Knee Pain. In: Doral, M.N., Karlsson, J. (eds) Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36569-0_278

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