Mild Biceps Tendonitis May Be Managed Nonoperatively During Shoulder Arthroscopy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purposes of this study were to determine whether patients with mild biceps tendonitis required revision surgery after the biceps tendon was not surgically treated, while addressing concomitant pathology, and to evaluate whether preoperative groove pain affected patient-reported outcomes.

Methods

Patients who underwent shoulder arthroscopy between 2015 and 2018 by a single surgeon for rotator cuff pathology, debridement, and distal clavicular excision (DCE), with or without subacromial decompression (SAD), and where the biceps tendon was not surgically addressed were retrospectively identified. Inclusion criteria were mild LS (<50% hyperemic appearing biceps tendon arthroscopically), and a minimum 2-year follow-up. The primary outcome measure was the incidence of

SUBMITTER: Light JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10518440 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature