Key result
SLAP lesion repairs performed by young orthopedists are hypothesized to account for substantially more than 3% of shoulder cases and are associated with significant complications.
Why the study?
What are the incidence rates, complications, and outcomes of SLAP lesion repairs performed by young orthopedists?
What are the incidence rates, complications, and outcomes of SLAP lesion repairs performed by young orthopedists?
The abstract hypothesizes that the rate of SLAP lesion repairs by young orthopedists is higher than historical referral practice rates, potentially leading to significant complications.
SLAP lesions of the shoulder are rare injuries. Snyder reported that SLAP lesions made up 3% of shoulder cases in a large subspecialty surgical referral practice. It is the authors' impression that the percentage of young orthopedists cases that are SLAP lesion repairs is far higher and that complications with this increased rate of repair are not insignificant.
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Weber et al. (2010) studied this question. SLAP lesion repairs performed by young orthopedists are hypothesized to account for substantially more than 3% of shoulder cases and are associated with significant complications.
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