[Comparison of surgical techniques for rotator cuff injury: cost-result].

Introduction: Currently, to manage rotator cuff injury (RCI), there is a tendency to replace mini-open (MO) surgery with arthroscopy, but results and costs are controversial.

Objective: To analyze the cost-result of surgical techniques for RCI.

Material And Methods: A partial economic evaluation of cost-result type was performed on 113 patients with RCI surgically operated by mini-open technique (n = 6), or arthroscopy (n = 91), or both (n = 16).