Shoulder/Elbow Flashcards
What is an anterosuperior RC tear?
Tear extending from subscap to or through the supraspinatus tendon
How to release adherent subscap tendon for repair.
Anterior surface
Release from behind the tip of coracoid and coracoid neck. Release behind the conjoint tendon.
Superior margin
Released from coracoid (release CH ligament too, basically skeletonizing coracoid)
Inferior margin
Axillary nerve and artery coursing from A to P around 3-5mm medial to musculotendinous jxn.
Posterior surface
Released from anterior capsule and glenoid neck
Loss of labrum decreases translational resistance by what percentage?
20%
What prevents posterior displacement with shoulder in flexion, IR and ADDuction?
SGHL and CHL
Posterior band of IGHL limits posterior displacement in what arm position?
Shoulder abduction
SGHL/CHL function?
Resist inferior translation and ER with arm adducted at the side, in neutral rotation.
Also limits posterior translation with arm flexed, IR and adducted
MGHL function?
Limits anterior translation with arm abducted to 45 degrees
Contents of rotator interval?
CH, SGHL, long head biceps
Primary restraint to anterior translation with abducted arm
Anterior band of IGHL
Most common associated fracture with a posterior shoulder dislocation?
Humeral neck (55%)
Then LT (42%)
then GT (23%)
Prevalence of reverse hill sachs and reverse bony bankart in posterior shoulder dislocation?
29% reverse hill sachs
5% reverse bony bankart
Algorithm for addressing reverse Hill sachs lesions
<20%
- Scope or open reverse Bankart repair
- McLaughlin Procedure
(peel and transfer SS into defect, or just anchor and suture SS into defect in situ)
**Must leave inferior rim of SS anatomic to preserve circumflex vessels!**
20-40%
Modified McLaughlin (LT osteotomy and transfer into defect)
Elevation of impaction, bonegraft
>40%
Arthroplasty or Allograft
Axillary nerve - how far from glenoid?
Which shoulder position maximizes the distance?
Mean of 12.4 mm from 6 o’clock glenoid
Abduction, ER and traction.
Nerve supply to subscap
Upper and lower subscapular nerve
Nerve supply to teres major
Lower subscapular nerve
Nerve supply to latissimus dorsi
Thoracodorsal nerve
Nerve to pec minor
Medial pectoral nerve
(vs pec major which is medial and lateral)
Location of thoracic outlet and other locations of compression
Between anterior and middle scalenes
Sites of compression
Abnormal scalene anatomy
Large transverse process
Cervical rib
Scapular ptosis
Clavicle or 1st rib malunion
Complications of TSA in order:
component loosening
instability
periprosthetic fracture
rotator cuff tears
neural injury
infection
deltoid muscle dysfunction
Elbow arthroscopy portals (7)
List nerves at risk for each
- Anterolateral (just anterior to RC joint) RADIAL and LABCN
- Anteromedial (1-2cm anterior and distal to medial epicondyle) MABC and MEDIAN
- Proximal anteromedial/anterolateral portals (each 2cm prox to epicondyle and just anterior to supracondylar ridge) AM: MEDIAN&ULNAR AL: RADIAL
- Direct lateral (soft spot)
- Distal ulnar (3-4cm distal to RC joint along lateral border of ulna)
- Direct posterior (3-4cm prox to tip of olecranon) PABCN&ULNAR
- Posterolateral (level of tip of olecranon, lateral side) PABCN