Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment techniques of Shoulder lesions

Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment techniques of Elbow lesions

New Publications

Acromio-clavicular joint

• Ultrasound diagnosis of the acromioclavicular joint
• Detection of acromioclavicular joint pathology in asymptomatic shoulders with magnetic resonance imaging.
• Stress-induced osteolysis of distal clavicle: imaging patterns and treatment using CT-guided injection.
• Osteoarthritis of the acromioclavicular joint: a review of anatomy, biomechanics, diagnosis, and treatment.

Anatomy

• Macroscopical anatomy of the so-called "rotator interval". A cadaver study on 19 shoulder joints.
• Glenoid osteophyte and rotator cuff tears: an anatomic study.
• The size of the supraspinatus outlet during elevation of the arm in the frontal and sagittal plane: a 3-D model study.
• The sternoclavicular joint: variants of the discus articularis.
• The subscapular and subcoracoid bursae: descriptive and functional anatomy.

Arthritis

• Adhesive capsulitis: role of MR imaging in differential diagnosis.
• The frozen shoulder. Arthroscopy, histological findings and transmission electron microscopy imaging
• The frozen shoulder
• Comparison of the efficacy of local corticosteroid injection and physical therapy for the treatment of adhesive capsulitis.
• End-range mobilization techniques in adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder joint: A multiple-subject case report
• Idiopathic adhesive capsulitis: long-term results of conservative treatment.
• Comparison of the early response to two methods of rehabilitation ( Cyriax) in adhesive capsulitis.
• Effectiveness of physical therapy for patients with adhesive capsulitis: a randomized controlled trial.
• Synovial response to intraarticular injections of hyaluronate in frozen shoulder: a quantitative assessment with dynamic magnetic resonance imaging.

Conservative treatment

• Ultrasound-guided, high-energy extracorporeal - shock-wave treatment of symptomatic calcareous tendinopathy of the shoulder
• Subacromial denervation as a treatment modality for patients with subacromial pathology
• Comparison of the accuracy of steroid placement with clinical outcome in patients with shoulder symptoms.

Instability

• Dynamic glenohumeral stability provided by three heads of the deltoid muscle.
• Translations of the humerus in persons with shoulder impingement symptoms.
• The effect of rotator cuff tears on reaction forces at the glenohumeral joint.
• The most effective exercise for strengthening the supraspinatus muscle: evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging.
• Posterosuperior impingement of the shoulder in the athlete: results of arthroscopic debridement in 75 patients
• Shoulder rehabilitation strategies, guidelines, and practice.
• Dynamic Glenohumeral Stability Provided by the Rotator Cuff Muscles in the Mid-Range and End-Range of Motion
• Scapular rotation in swimmers with and without impingement syndrome: practice effects.

Neurological lesions

• Suprascapular neuropathy.
• Suprascapular neuropathy. Variability in the diagnosis, treatment, and outcome.
• Sonographic imaging of a spinoglenoid cyst.
• Anatomy of the spinal accessory nerve plexus: relevance to head and neck cancer and atherosclerosis.
• Spinal accessory mononeuropathy following posterior fossa decompression surgery.
• The natural history of long thoracic and spinal accessory neuropathies.
• Vulnerability of the spinal accessory nerve in the posterior triangle of the neck: a cadaveric study.
• Innervation of the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles by the accessory nucleus.
• Surgical anatomy of the spinal accessory nerve and the trapezius branches of the cervical plexus.
• Latrogenic injury to the longthoracic nerve: an underestimated cause of morbidity after cardiac surgery.
• Serratus anterior paralysis as an occupational injury in scaffolders: two case reports.
• Long-term follow-up and patient satisfaction after surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome.
• [N. thoracicus longus lesion--a rare injury in weight lifting]
• Nerve injury about the shoulder in athletes, part 2: long thoracic nerve, spinal accessory nerve, burners/stingers, thoracic outlet syndrome.

Rotator Cuff

• The relative importance of acromial morphology and age with respect to rotator cuff pathology.
• Isolated traumatic rupture of the subscapularis tendon.
• Structural factors affecting the outcome of rotator cuff repair.
• Greater tuberosity notch: an important indicator of articular-side partial rotator cuff tears in the shoulders of throwing athletes.
• Distinction between supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis tendon tears with ultrasound in 332 surgically confirmed cases.
• A comparison of clinical estimation, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, and arthroscopy in determining the size of rotator cuff tears.
• Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging in determining the presence and size of recurrent rotator cuff tears
• The correlation between bursoscopic and histologic findings of the acromion undersurface in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome.
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the shoulder: a review of potential sources of diagnostic errors.
• The effect of rotator cuff tears on reaction forces at the glenohumeral joint.
• The size of the supraspinatus outlet during elevation of the arm in the frontal and sagittal plane: a 3-D model study.
• Efficacy of Injections of Corticosteroids for Subacromial Impingement Syndrome
• Correlation of age, acromial morphology, and rotator cuff tear pathology diagnosed by ultrasound in asymptomatic patients.
• Translations of the humerus in persons with shoulder impingement symptoms.
• Effects of glenohumeral rotations and translations on supraspinatus tendon morphology.
• The architecture of the subacromial space after full thickness supraspinatus tears

Shoulder girdle

• Resection arthroplasty of the sternoclavicular joint for the treatment of primary degenerative sternoclavicular arthritis.
• Posterior dislocation of the sternoclavicular joint: a case report and review of the clinical anatomy of the region.
• Current presentation and optimal surgical management of sternoclavicular joint infections.
• Tuberculosis of the sternoclavicular joints.
• Pain referral from the sternoclavicular joint: a study in normal volunteers.
• Acne with chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis involving the mandible as part of the SAPHO syndrome: case report.
• SAPHO syndrome. Scintigraphic and radiologic findings]
• Synovial osteochondromatosis of the sternoclavicular joint.
• Dislocations of the sternoclavicular joint.
• The sternoclavicular joint: variants of the discus articularis.
• Non-Hodgkin's tumor and Pancoast's syndrome.
• The sterno-clavicular joint: anatomy, biomechanic, clinical features and aspects of manual therapy
• The painful scapulothoracic articulation: surgical management.
• Sternoclavicular septic arthritis: review of 180 cases.

Surgery

• Surgery in massive ruptures of the rotator cuff: results as related to prognosis.
• Arthroscopic repair of full-thickness tears of the rotator cuff: 2- to 14-year follow-up.
• Negative prognostic factors in managing massive rotator cuff tears.
• Outcome of rotator cuff repair.
• Structural factors affecting the outcome of rotator cuff repair.
• Posterosuperior impingement of the shoulder in the athlete: results of arthroscopic debridement in 75 patients
• Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with and without arthroscopic subacromial decompression: a prospective, randomized study of one-year outcomes.

Technical Investigations

• Distinction between supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis tendon tears with ultrasound in 332 surgically confirmed cases.
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the shoulder: a review of potential sources of diagnostic errors.
• A comparison of clinical estimation, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, and arthroscopy in determining the size of rotator cuff tears.
• Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging in determining the presence and size of recurrent rotator cuff tears
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the shoulder in asymptomatic professional baseball pitchers.
• The correlation between bursoscopic and histologic findings of the acromion undersurface in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome.
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the asymptomatic shoulder of overhead athletes: a 5-year follow-up study.
• Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of the rotator cuff tendons in the asymptomatic shoulder.

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