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ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2023

Cancellous bone should not be exposed during medialized rotator cuff repair based on bone-to-tendon healing in a rat mode.

Yucheng Sun, Hui Ben, Youlang Zhou, In-Ho Jeon, Jun Tan

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Article in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yucheng SunDepartment of Hand Surgery, College of Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, University of Nantong, No.20 West Temple Road, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China. jacksunshoulder@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5899-2792
Hui BenDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, ASAN Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea.
Youlang ZhouDepartment of Hand Surgery, College of Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, University of Nantong, No.20 West Temple Road, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
In-Ho JeonDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, ASAN Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea.
Jun TanDepartment of Hand Surgery, College of Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, University of Nantong, No.20 West Temple Road, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China. juntan7401@gmail.com.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 81871824Natural Science Foundation for the youth of Jiangsu Province BK20210843the start-up research grant program for Ph.D of Affiliated hospital of Nantong University Tdb2007
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purposeTo compare the biological bone-to-tendon healing using three different medialized bone bed preparation techniques (i.e. cortical bone exposure, cancellous bone exposure, and no cartilage removal) in a rat model of medialized rotator cuff repair.

methodsTwenty-one male Sprague-Dawley rats with 42 shoulders were subjected to bilateral supraspinatus tenotomy from the greater tuberosity. The rotator cuff was repaired using medialized anchoring with the cortical bone exposed, the cancellous bone exposed, or no cartilage removed. Four and three rats in each group were killed for biomechanical testing and histological evaluation, respectively, at postoperative 6 weeks.

resultsAll rats survived until the end of the study, but one infected shoulder in the cancellous bone exposure group was excluded from further analysis. Compared with the cortical bone exposure and no cartilage removal groups, the rotator cuff healing of the cancellous bone exposure group showed significantly lower maximum load (cancellous bone exposure group: 26.2 ± 2.3 N, cortical bone exposure group: 37.6 ± 7.9 N, no cartilage removal group: 34.6 ± 7.2 N, P = 0.005 and 0.029) and less stiffness (cancellous bone exposure group: 10.5 ± 2.4 N/mm, cortical bone exposure group: 17.4 ± 6.7 N, no cartilage removal group: 16.0 ± 3.9 N, P = 0.015 and 0.050) at postoperative 6 weeks. In all three groups, the repaired supraspinatus tendon healed towards the original insertion rather than the medialized insertion. The cancellous bone exposure group showed inferior fibrocartilage formation and insertion healing.

conclusionsThe medialized bone-to-tendon repair strategy does not guarantee complete histological healing, and the removal of excessive bony structure impairs bone-to-tendon healing. This study concludes that surgeons should not expose the cancellous bone during the medialized rotator cuff repair.

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Rotator CuffRotator Cuff InjuriesAnimalsCancellous BoneMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTendonsBone-to-tendon healingCancellous bone exposureMedialized rotator cuff repairRotator cuff tear

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