Repair integrity and functional outcomes of arthroscopic repair for intratendinous partial-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Purpose: We evaluated the clinical and radiological outcomes of arthroscopic repair of intratendinous partial-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 30 patients who underwent arthroscopic repair of intratendinous partial-thickness rotator cuff tears from January 2010 to January 2015 in a single institute. Five outcome measures were used: a visual analog scale (VAS) pain score, the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons score, the shoulder rating scale of the University of California at Los Angeles, the Constant-Murley score, and range of motion (ROM).

Do patients receiving workers' compensation who undergo arthroscopic rotator cuff repair have worse outcomes than non-recipients? Retrospective case-control study.

Purpose: We compared preoperative and postoperative measures among workers' compensation board (WCB) recipients and non-recipients and determined the impact of WCB receipt on the 1- and 2-year outcomes of rotator cuff repair.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients with full-thickness rotator cuff tears who underwent arthroscopic repair between September 2011 and September 2014. Patients were divided into two groups based on WCB status: WCB recipients and non-recipients.

Clinical outcomes and repair integrity of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair using suture-bridge technique with or without medial tying: prospective comparative study.

Background: There have been few studies comparing clinical and radiological outcomes between the conventional and knotless suture-bridge techniques. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the functional outcomes and repair integrity of arthroscopic conventional and knotless suture-bridge technique for full-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Methods: We prospectively followed 100 consecutive patients (100 shoulders) with full-thickness rotator cuff tears treated with the arthroscopic conventional or knotless suture-bridge technique from October 2012 to July 2014.

Incomplete articular-side repair increase re-tear rate in full-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Purpose: This study compared the functional outcome and repair integrity of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair according to articular-side repair state in full-thickness tears.

Methods: We prospectively enrolled 80 consecutive patients with full-thickness rotator cuff tears of 1.5-3.

Anteroposterior translation of the glenohumeral joint in various pathologies: differences between shoulder MRI in the adducted neutral rotation and abducted externally rotated positions.

Purpose: The present study was performed to determine the translation of the glenohumeral joint in patients with and without shoulder lesions by comparing the magnetic resonance images obtained in the conventional adducted neutral rotation position with those obtained in the abducted externally rotated position.

Methods: Two hundred and eighty-five consecutive shoulders without rotator cuff tears that had been subjected to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without arthrography in the abducted externally rotated position were reviewed retrospectively. Among them, 50 shoulders without pathology were selected at random to be compared with three shoulder pathology groups, comprising shoulders with superior labrum, anterior-to-posterior (SLAP) lesions without range of motion (ROM) limitation (group I, 47 shoulders), with massive rotator cuff tears without ROM limitation (group II, 20 shoulders), and with full-thickness subscapularis tendon tears without ROM limitation (group III, 20 shoulders).

Repair integrity and functional outcome after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: double-row versus suture-bridge technique.

Background: Only a few studies have examined repair integrity and functional outcome after arthroscopic suture-bridge rotator cuff repair procedure. In addition, no reported study has compared outcomes between the suture-bridge and double-row techniques.

Purpose: This study compared the functional outcome and repair integrity of arthroscopic double-row and conventional suture-bridge repair in full-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Percutaneous reduction and leverage fixation using K-wires in paediatric angulated radial neck fractures.

Purpose: We evaluated the usefulness of percutaneous reduction and leverage fixation using K-wires in children with radial neck fractures.

Materials And Methods: Between 2006 and 2008, we evaluated 13 paediatric patients with radial neck fractures who had been observed for at least two years and underwent percutaneous reduction and leverage fixation using K-wires. We measured radial angulation and radial translation using preoperative, postoperative and final follow-up radiographs, and we clinically investigated range of motion and carrying angle according to Steele's grading system.