ArticleArthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation2024
Traumatic and Atraumatic Rotator Cuff Tears Have the Same Rates of Healing.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Muscle edema of the rotator cuff: a systematic review of characteristics and associated pathologies from the LaTour group.EFORT open reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Preoperative fatty infiltration predicts functional outcomes after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: does trauma or degeneration matter?BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
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- Factors influencing return to work after rotator cuff surgery: A scoping review.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Rotator Cuff Muscular Edema in Human: A Clinical and Radiological Analysis From the LaTour Group.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Characteristics of Traumatic Versus Atraumatic Rotator Cuff Tears in Patients Under 50 Years of Age.Cureus · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: To examine whether traumatic rotator cuff repairs (RCRs) differ in postoperative rotator cuff tendon integrity and functional outcomes from degenerative RCRs. Methods: RCRs performed by a single surgeon were retrospectively identified. The inclusion criteria were repairable Goutallier grades 0 to 2 full-thickness rotator cuff tears. Demographic and clinical data as well as radiological results were compared. A multivariate logistic regression of the of patient acceptable symptom state for American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score was performed to evaluate whether the origin of tear led to a different relative risk (RR) independently from tear and surgical characteristics. Results: A total of 616 consecutive shoulders (304 traumatic and 312 degenerative) were finally included. Traumatic ruptures presented a greater distribution of male (72% vs 51%, Conclusions: Traumatic cases were frequent, involved younger patients, more frequently affected the anterior rotator cuff, and were associated with more severe tendon retraction. Traumatic and degenerative RCRs lead to comparable clinical and radiologic results. Level of Evidence: Level III, retrospective comparative study.
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