Human Dermal Allograft Patch Augmentation of Degenerate Rotator Cuff Tendon Using a Single Lateral-Row Technique.

ABSTRACT: The role of biological augmentation in arthroscopic rotator cuff repair surgery has increased over the years. It has shown favorable healing rates and functional outcomes. Patch augmentation is commonly applied in repairs of massively retracted cuff tears, full-thickness tears, revision repair, or open cuff surgery. There is a paucity of literature on the use of patch augmentation when dealing with a chronic degenerate tendon associated with small-sized cuff tears. In recent years, the resorbable bioinductive bovine collagen implant has gained popularity for its application in partial-thickness tears via an isolated bioinductive repair fashion, without traditional rotator cuff repair. These bioinductive implants, albeit promising in their biological properties for tendon repair, lack struc

SUBMITTER: Gatot C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826975 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature