Objective To study the long-term outcome of arthroscopy in patients with chronic patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), the authors conducted a randomised ... an arthroscopy group (N=28), treated with ...

But patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome will often need to lose weight before they can undergo surgery for knee pain.

The aims of this study were to determine whether bone scintigrams of patients suffering from patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) show diffuse uptake and in what bony compartment of the knee uptake, if ...