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ArticleArthroscopy techniques2025

Arthroscopic Dorsal Scapular Nerve Decompression for Painful Scapulothoracic Abnormal Motion: Technique and Indications.

Ryan Lohre, Abdulaziz F Ahmed, Bassem Elhassan

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Article in Arthroscopy techniques, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Dorsal scapular nerve entrapment: a systematic review.JSES reviews, reports, and techniques · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ryan LohreDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH Scapula Program, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Abdulaziz F AhmedMissouri Orthopaedic Institute, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.
Bassem ElhassanDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH Scapula Program, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with scapulothoracic abnormal motion can present with debilitating medial scapular border pain. In patients with scapulothoracic abnormal motion and evidence of diffuse medial scapular border pain along the dorsal scapular nerve (DSN) distribution, surgical release of the DSN is indicated. This Technical Note provides an all-arthroscopic approach to thoracic decompression of the DSN.

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PMID40452968
PMCPMC12126054

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