it seems we must differentiate between rupture of the quadriceps tendon ( namely , rupture in an elderly patient with degeneratively changed tendon in trivial traumas ) on the one hand , and rupture of the patellar ligament ( rupture in the young patient with considerable trauma , as in sports ) and hence a more or less purely traumatically caused rupture , on the other .
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