The Hoffa’s disease is a rare and little-known cause of anterior knee
pain. It was first reported by Albert Hoffa in 1904. It is due to chronic
impingement of fat pad Hoffa between the femur and the tibia during knee
extension. The formation of the Hoffa’s chondroma appears to be the final phase
of acute-chronic transformation process of this disease. We present a case of
chondroma of Hoffa which received complete resection under arthroscopy. We show
in this work the clinical appearance, radiological and pathological chondroma
of the Hoffa.
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