Ultrasonic aspiration for vaccination-related shoulder dysfunction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic shoulder pain occurs rarely after a vaccination and is hypothesized to arise from the effects of unintentional vaccine injection into the subacromial bursa, rotator cuff, capsule or underlying bone. The avascular nature of the rotator cuff, as well as unknown genetic and environmental factors, may predispose to the persistence of pain and disability, referred to as vaccination-related shoulder dysfunction and shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA).

Methods

Ultrasonography, sonopalpation and ultrasound-guided anesthetic injections were used to locate the anatomical source of chronic (mean 20, range 8-42 months) shoulder pain after a vaccination in a consecutive series of 5 patients. Subsequently ultrasound-guided ultrasonic aspiration and

SUBMITTER: Bodor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642614 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature