Clinical Study on Diagnostics and Outcome of Ruptures of the Subscapularis After Arthroscopic Refixation

University of Rostock

Status: Completed

Conditions: Subscapularis Tendon Rupture

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02383914

Subscap-042014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the trial is to optimize the diagnostics of subscapularis tendon tears and as the circumstances require to found a new classification.

The prime objective is a comparison of the conclusive of the clinic check-up, the sonographic and magnetic resonance tomography findings.

The secondary objective is to detect the correlation of the outcome with the age , the gender, the pathogenesis and attendant injuries.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients, who have turned 18
• suspected subscapularis tendon rupture

Exclusion criteria

• disability to understand the trial
• intraoperative intact supbscapularis tendon
• pre-surgical operation of the affected shoulder
• tumor
• infection

Trial design

32 participants in 1 patient group

Subscapularis rupture