Modular shoulder arthroplasty.

One hundred consecutive Biomet modular shoulder arthroplasties were studied prospectively and were evaluated with a minimum 2-year follow-up (average 41 months). Fifty-seven women and 43 men with an average age of 64 years were evaluated for pain, activities of daily living, range of motion, cost, and complications. Fourteen patients had undergone previous surgery to the shoulder.

MR imaging of the shoulder after surgery.

Objective: This study examines the usefulness of MR imaging for assessing patients who have undergone shoulder surgery and have persistent postoperative complaints.

Subjects And Methods: Fifty patients with persistent postoperative shoulder pain underwent MR imaging before second-look arthroscopy. The MR imaging findings were correlated with findings at surgery.

Magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of failed repairs of the rotator cuff. Relationship to operative findings.

We used magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate thirty shoulders in twenty-nine patients who had unacceptable pain and loss of function after at least one operative procedure for a lesion of the rotator cuff. A preoperative history was recorded and physical and radiographic examinations were performed before magnetic resonance imaging. All patients had a reoperation two to 156 months (average, thirty-two months) after the operation.