Patellar malalignment correlates with increased pain and increased synovial stress hormone levels–A cross-sectional study

• Marco Brenneis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Brenneis, Marius Junker, Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl, Andrea Meurer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marco.brenneis@kgu.de

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7811-7493

  ⨯
• Marius Junker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Brenneis, Marius Junker, Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl, Andrea Meurer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Department of Orthopedics, Tabea Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  ⨯
• Rebecca Sohn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), Dr. Rolf M. Schwiete Research Unit for Osteoarthritis, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  ⨯
• Sebastian Braun,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  ⨯
• Markus Ehnert,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  ⨯
• Frank Zaucke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), Dr. Rolf M. Schwiete Research Unit for Osteoarthritis, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  ⨯
• Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Brenneis, Marius Junker, Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl, Andrea Meurer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), Dr. Rolf M. Schwiete Research Unit for Osteoarthritis, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  ⨯
• Andrea Meurer

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Brenneis, Marius Junker, Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl, Andrea Meurer

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics (Friedrichsheim), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Medical Park St. Hubertus Klinik, Bad Wiessee, Germany

  ⨯