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Bursae around the shoulder are small pouches with synovial lining aimed to alleviate friction between moving structures. Next to the well-known subacromial or subdeltoid bursae, other bursae known around the shoulder are as follows: the supra-acromial bursa, the subcoracoid bursa, the coracoclavicular or supracoracoidal bursa, and under the scapula the subscapularis bursa, the scapulothoracic bursa and some minor bursae.
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Demonstration of the endoscopic resection of the superior medial facet of the scapula for snapping scapula (Courtesy Dr Simon Bell, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Melbourne, Australia) (MPG 4872 kb)
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Diercks, R.L. (2015). Scapulothoracic and Subscapular Bursae. In: Bain, G., Itoi, E., Di Giacomo, G., Sugaya, H. (eds) Normal and Pathological Anatomy of the Shoulder. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45719-1_16
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