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Physical examination revealed medial parapatellar local tenderness, a palpable click in this area when the knee was extended, and hamstring tightness. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a duplicated medial plica, characterized by a high-intensity signal of the infrapatellar fat pad medial portion, after which a presumptive diagnosis of medial plica syndrome was proposed. After conservative treatment failure, the patient underwent standard knee arthroscopy that revealed a superior low profile and an inferior high profile medial plica, and hypertrophy of the medial portion of the infrapatellar fat pad. Both plicae and fat pad were resected with a mechanical shaver until no contact between the femoral trochlea and the fat pad was observed during full range of motion. At 4\u00a0weeks postoperatively, symptoms completely resolved, and the patient was allowed to return to full activity with no recurrences at 1\u00a0year follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The current study presented a rare anatomical variation of the knee medial synovial plica that was symptomatic and recalcitrant to conservative treatment. This case report may be useful for radiologists and orthopaedic surgeons to differentiate this special plica type and consider its response to conservative and surgical treatment during patient management.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00276-022-03025-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,30]],"date-time":"2022-09-30T11:11:50Z","timestamp":1664536310000},"page":"1391-1395","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Reduplicated medial parapatellar plica: a case of a medial plica anatomical variation recalcitrant to conservative treatment"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"44","author":[{"given":"Theodorakys","family":"Mar\u00edn Ferm\u00edn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Luca","family":"Macchiarola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Tsakotos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ioannis","family":"Terzidis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Trifon","family":"Totlis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"3025_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"466","DOI":"10.1177\/036354659001800503","volume":"18","author":"MM Amatuzzi","year":"1990","unstructured":"Amatuzzi MM, Fazz A, Varella MH (1990) Pathologic synovial plica of the knee. 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