Evaluation of Inferior Capsular Laxity in Patients with Atraumatic Multidirectional Shoulder Instability with Magnetic Resonance Arthrography.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare inferior capsular redundancy by using magnetic resonance arthrography (MRA) images in patients with multidirectional instability (MDI) of the shoulder and control subjects without instability and thereby develop a screening method to identify the presence of shoulder MDI.

Materials and methods

The MRA images of patients with MDI of the shoulder (n = 65, 57 men, 8 women; mean age, 24.5 years; age range, 18-42 years) treated over an eight-year period were retrospectively reviewed; a control group (n = 65, 57 men, 8 women; mean age, 27.4 years; age range, 18-45 years) without instability was also selected. The inferior capsular redundancy was measured using a new method we named the glenocapsular (GC) ratio method. MRA images of both groups were randomly mi

SUBMITTER: Park KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6536793 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature