Cuff-slight arthropaty: clinical assessment following open suture or fixation of the cuff or shoulder replacement.

Gumina, Stefano
P., De Santis
Postacchini, Franco

Publication date

January 2001

Abstract

We analyzed the functional outcome of patients with cuff slight-arthropathy (CSA) who underwent surgery for pain and radiographically assessed prevalence of shoulder arthropathy in asymptomatic subjects. Osteophytes cystic changes and reduction of joint space (<2mm) are the radiographic requisites to consider arthropathy as slight. Thirty-five patients with CSA (Goutallier:1- 2) who underwent open acromioplasty together with tendon repair/transosseous fixation (8), Hemarthor Plasty, (HA) (11) and total shoulder anthroplasrty (TSA) (4) were clinically assessed over a period of 3 years. We radiographically evaluated the contralateral shoulder of 110 subjects. Joint space was measured; prevalence of osteophytes and cystic changes was calculate...