Abstract

We report a 3-year-old girl with permanent dislocation of the patella due to distal femoral epiphyseolysis in the perinatal period.This distal femoral epiphyseolysis may have occurred from a trial of external cephalic version.Radiogram showed genu valgum in the right knee when aged two months.Presently, the patient has a permanent lateral dislocation of the patella.The etiology of patellar dislocation is discussed.

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