Describes a new, less invasive technique for intraoperative localization of calcium deposits during arthroscopic surgery for calcifying tendinitis.
May reduce surgical invasiveness for calcium localization in calcifying tendinitis; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Reliable intraoperative localization of the calcium deposit is the most demanding and often time-consuming part of arthroscopic surgery for calcifying tendinitis of the rotator cuff. A new technique is described to intraoperatively localize calcium deposits based on preoperative ultrasonographic identification and subsequent assignment to a defined quadrant lateral of the acromion edge. The technique requires only a partial subacromial bursectomy, making the procedure less invasive and faster to perform.
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