Clinical pathology of recurrent anterior dislocation of shoulder joint / 中华骨科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To comprehensively know clinical pathological change of recurrent anterior dislocation of shoulder joint by arthroscopy. Methods 52 patients with recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation were inspected by arthroscopy in our institute, 38 cases were male, 14 cases were female; the mean age were 24.7, from 16 to 49 years old. 2 epilepsy patients were excluded, the other 50 cases were divided into two groups, the first group included 32 shoulder dislocated patients accompanied with shoulder hyper-laxity. The other group included 18 purely traumatic shoulder dislocated patients. All patients were explored by arthroscopy and all pathological changes were recorded and the difference of pathological change between the two groups were contrasted. Results 51 cases showed anterior-inferior labrum injury, 50 cases showed Hill-Sachs injury, 32 cases showed biceps-tendon inflammation or injury, 30 cases showed bone or cartilage injury of anterior-inferior glenoid, 29 cases showed SLAP injury, 7 cases showed rotator cuff injury. Anterior-inferior labrum injury labrum abraded disappear was more occurred in pure traumatic group(P=0.055) and ALPSA injury was more in hyper-laxity group (59.4% to 38.9%, P=0.164). Bone or cartilage injury of anterior-inferior glenoid were more occurred in purely traumatic group(P=0.083, P=0.052). Hill-Sachs injury was more superficial or only cartilage injury in hyper-laxity group but wider and deeper in purely traumatic group. Conclusion The general pathological changes of recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation sucessively are anterior-inferior labrum injury, Hill-Sachs injury, biceps-tendon inflammation or injury, bone or cartilage injury of anterior-inferior glenoid, SLAP injury and rotator cuff injury. The pathological changes of the hyper-laxity group were lighter than purely traumatic group.