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Rotator Cuff Tear: Imaging

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The use of modern diagnostic techniques as magnetic resonance allows you to overcome some discrepancies between the morphological and clinical data in patients with a suspected rotator cuff lesion. A musculoskeletal radiologist or an orthopedic surgeon may assess not only the presence and the type of a cuff lesion but also several tendon and muscle features as the thickness of the remaining tendon and the quality of the tendon margins and humeral bone, which are critical in choosing the type of surgical approach to be performed.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Istituto Chirurgico Ortopedico Traumatologico (ICOT), Latina, Italy

    Claudio Chillemi

  2. Shoulder Unit, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy

    Alessandro Castagna

  3. Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, “Sapienza” - University of Rome (ICOT Latina), Rome, Italy

    Marcello Osimani

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Chillemi, C., Castagna, A., Osimani, M. (2018). Rotator Cuff Tear: Imaging. In: Arthroscopic Transosseous Rotator Cuff Repair. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76153-4_3

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