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Safety and efficacy of arthroscopy in the setting of shoulder arthroplasty

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Shoulder arthroplasty has become a reliable and reproducible method of treating a range of shoulder pathologies including fractures, osteoarthritis, and rotator cuff arthropathy. Although most patients experience favorable outcomes from shoulder arthroplasty, some patients suffer from persistent symptoms post-arthroplasty and it is these patients who present a unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The role of arthroscopy in assessing and treating patients with symptomatic prosthetic joints elsewhere in the body has been established in recent literature. However, the range of pathology that can affect a prosthetic shoulder is distinct from the knee or the hip and requires careful and considered assessment if an accurate diagnosis is to be made. When used alongside other investigations in a comprehensive assessment protocol, arthroscopy can play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of the problematic shoulder arthroplasty.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, 4E15, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada

    Sebastian Heaven, Darren de SA, Andrew Duong & Olufemi R. Ayeni

  2. Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 293 Wellington Street North, Suite 110, Hamilton, ON, L8L 8E7, Canada

    Nicole Simunovic

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Heaven, S., de SA, D., Duong, A. et al. Safety and efficacy of arthroscopy in the setting of shoulder arthroplasty. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med 9, 54–58 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12178-016-9318-y

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