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Next patient is a 24-year-old man with a

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history of a right shoulder dislocation and pain.

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Now, this was done at midfield.

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It's a midfield open.

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Let's start out really simply,

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won't get too complex just yet.

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And I'm going to just start out with an axial.

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Let's just scroll up and down on our axial.

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Now, look at the muscles on this guy.

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He is either genetically gifted

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or he is on the juice.

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He has taken some steroids because

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these are some big muscles.

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Pretty hard to get him this big without steroids.

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Or he's a professional athlete, which he is.

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Let's keep scrolling.

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Now, most of these professional athletes,

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they spend a ton of time in the weight room doing

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this bench pressing, doing this military pressing.

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What does that do?

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Forces the humeral head backwards.

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And so the humeral head is wiggling back and

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forth and back and forth with 300, 400,

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450 pounds on the barbell or some dumbbells.

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And eventually this thing starts to peel.

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Off, which it did.

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That's not a dislocation, however.

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That's a chronic repetitive phenomenon.

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There's a little signal in the labrum.

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Sometimes the labrum will peel off and you'll get

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a little pouch back here from

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this weightlifting activity.

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It'll kind of scooch around the back like that.

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The periosteum will stay attached,

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and that's known as a reverse

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perthes or Kim's lesion.

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So he does have an issue in

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the back of the shoulder,

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but that is not a dislocation type injury.

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That is a micro instability repetitive overuse

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type injury. The reverse perthes lesion,

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the small posterior labral micro tear.

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Another name given to the reverse Perthes lesion

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is Kim's lesion. So let's keep going.

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We go up high.

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We have our biceps takeoff, our superior.

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Labrum, some cartilage or a sulcus or a tear.

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We'll see. It's not a tear.

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Let's keep looking.

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We have the superior glenohumoral

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ligament complex right here.

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Let's keep going down.

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We have a little sulcus right here.

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We're in the upper quadrant of the shoulder.

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I don't mind having some variability in

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the upper quadrant of the shoulder.

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I do mind when I get below the equator.

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Remember earlier we said one of our rules

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is when you go from high to low,

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the labrum should get bigger.

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Let's see if that happens this time.

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We don't have a Buford complex.

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Here's our labrum.

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It's getting smaller.

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It's even smaller.

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I can't find it.

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I still can't find it now, all.

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The way down low,

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you probably won't be able to find it.

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But I can't find it on four consecutive cuts.

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And I have some fluid in the joint.

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Not a tremendous amount. Let's keep looking,

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shall we?

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Let's go to three up.

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I've got a T2 on the

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right, proton density in the middle,

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and another T2 on the left.

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The T2s were done with different TEs.

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I think they repeated it because

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the patient moved.

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So let's stay with the non-motion affected T2.

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One is not fat suppressed and

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one is fat suppressed.

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Let's look at the one that is not fat suppressed,

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the one that we were on initially,

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and maybe we'll add this first one here.

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So this was a gradient echo that

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we were looking at first.

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Here's your T2.

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I'm not liking that at all.

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I'm not liking the fact that the

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labrum gets kind of small,

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but what I'm liking even less is the architecture

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of the anterior bundle of the inferior Glenah

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humeral ligament. What's happening here?

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I'm having trouble attaching it to the humerus.

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So I'm concerned about this entire

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labro-ligamentous complex.

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I'm honestly not sure yet if I was reading

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this alone. What's going on?

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So now I'll turn my attention to the coronals.

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Let's pull down some coronals and see.

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What we're dealing with.

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Because when you get down all the way low here,

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it can be really hard with an axial that is

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parallel or tangent to the abnormality.

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So while the status of the anterior labrum that's

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coming at you is hard to ascertain, it was small.

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It did have a little tear in it.

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That wasn't the main finding.

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The main finding is here.

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Right there.

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The ighl, which has an anterior bundle,

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a middle bundle, and a posterior bundle.

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It never attaches.

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It never attaches to the humeral neck.

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So this is what's known as a hagel,

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a humeral avulsion of the glenohumural ligament.

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Now, if it takes a piece of bone with it,

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it's called a behagel or a bagel.

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If it comes off the glenoid side and the

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humeral side, it's called an igle,

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an anterior inferior glenahumural ligament

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attachment, also known as a floating ighl.

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Those are kind of the main findings that the main

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sort of eponyms that you're going to see in this

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area there are about three or four others

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we're not going to discuss today.

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But the main finding here is this young man has

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had a dislocation with detachment of the IgHL from

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the humeral neck without a fragment of bone

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with a small anterior labral tear.

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And look at his Hill-Sachs injury.

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It's not a trough, it's not an erosion,

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it's not a cyst. In fact, it's pretty minor.

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It's a microtrabecular subcortical fracture.

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It looks like a spider, doesn't it?

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That's not an impingement-related lesion.

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Impingement-related lesion is going

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to be very sharply defined.

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It's going to be a pseudocyst or it's going

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to be a well-etched trough like this.

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This is an ill-defined area of bone edema.

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It's a minor Hill-Sachs.

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So let's see.

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What other questions did you ask about this?

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You said Hill-Sachs defect.

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Not sure I'd use the word defect.

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I'd use the word Hill-Sachs equivalent.

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No Bankart lesion appreciated.

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I think that's fair.

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But the anterior inferior labrum is not normal,

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so I would call it a baby Bankart-type lesion.

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The main finding, though.

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Is the Hegel.

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And you should indicate that it has

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not taken a piece of bone with it.

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Some of you read an infraspinatus tear with

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fraying and I think that's absolutely fair.

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There is a small infraspinatus tear right there.

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It's probably not full depth.

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They didn't operate on it, I can tell you.

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And they didn't mess with it.

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They looked there,

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they saw some swelling and edema and just

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left it alone. That'll heal on its own.

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And then some of you probably read this,

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which is a cuff contusion.

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It's

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right over the hill sacks injury.

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So there is a little micro injury here.

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So absolutely fine to say in the conclusion,

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maybe number three or four micro tearing of the

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infraspinatus medially and posteriorally

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without macro tear of macro retraction.

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Number one should be dislocation of the shoulder

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with minor anterior labor injury and major

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detachment of the IGHL from the humeral neck,

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or so-called Hegel lesion.

Report

Patient History
24 year-old male with a history of right shoulder dislocation and pain.
Findings

ROTATOR CUFF: Contusion and interstitial microtearing of the supraspinatus and infraspinatus; no macrotear. Microtearing at the myotendinous junction of the supraspinatus. Normal teres minor. Normal subscapularis.

SUBACROMIAL/SUBDELTOID BURSA: Mild subacromial-subdeltoid peritendinitis.

MUSCLES (ROTATOR CUFF/DELTOID, TRAPEZIUS, PECTORALIS): No rotator cuff muscle atrophy, strain, or tear.

BICEPS TENDON: Normal long head biceps tendon, without dislocation or tear.

AC JOINT: Normal acromioclavicular joint without separation.

CORACOCLAVICULAR LIGAMENTS: Normal coracoclavicular ligaments without swelling or tear.

SUBACROMIAL ARCH/OUTLET: No subacromial arch stenosis or impingement.

SUBCORACOID ARCH: No subcoracoid arch narrowing or impingement.

GLENOHUMERAL JOINT: Normal glenoid and humeral head cartilage at the articular surfaces. Rupture of the inferior glenohumeral ligaments from the humerus with soft tissue swelling dissecting into the axilla. No avulsion fracture. The glenoid attachments are intact.

GLENOID LABRUM: No acute labral tear or paralabral cyst. Fissuring of the posterior-inferior glenoid labrum, chronic.

BONES: Mild osseous contusion of the humeral head adjacent to the supraspinatus insertion. Mild osseous contusion as a Hill-Sachs equivalent. No Bankart injury or glenoid bone loss.

SUBCUTANEOUS SOFT TISSUES: Normal without swelling or mass.

AXILLA: Soft tissue swelling dissecting from the glenohumeral joint. Normal neurovasculature. No lymphadenopathy.

Impressions
Humeral avulsion of the glenohumeral ligaments, HAGL.
Supraspinatus and infraspinatus contusion and interstitial microtearing. No communicating, surfacing or retracted rotator cuff tear.
Hill-Sachs equivalent without macrofracture. No Bankart labral or glenoid injury.
Mild subacromial-subdeltoid peritendinitis.

Case Discussion

Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Jenny T Bencardino, MD

Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs Department of Radiology

Montefiore Radiology

Edward Smitaman, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

University of California San Diego

Tags

Shoulder

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

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