“…A case of irreducible patella is mostly caused by a direct medial blow with the knee in extension or slight flexion [1, 4, 6, 9–11, 13, 14, 16, 22, 25]. It can also occur without direct trauma [2, 15, 17, 18, 21] and in patients with previous history of patellar dislocation as described by Higgins and Khalfaoui and Devgan et al [5, 12].…”