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Image-Guided Procedures of the Shoulder

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There are numerous causes of shoulder pain and dysfunction which can be diagnosed or treated with an image-guided procedure. This chapter discusses the fluoroscopic and sonographic techniques for glenohumeral joint injection/aspiration, injection of the acromioclavicular joint, subdeltoid bursa, biceps tendon sheath, scapulothoracic bursa, and sternoclavicular joint, aspiration and lavage of calcific tendinosis, and aspiration of paralabral cysts.

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  1. Division of Ultrasound, Department of Radiology and Imaging, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

    Ogonna Kenechi Nwawka, Shefali Kothary & Theodore T. Miller

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Nwawka, O.K., Kothary, S., Miller, T.T. (2019). Image-Guided Procedures of the Shoulder. In: Bencardino, J. (eds) The Shoulder. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06240-8_4

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