Patients with symptomatic rotator cuff tears presenting to hospital clinic after having ultrasound exam in community with indications for surgery

After comparing ultrasound study of rotator cuff injuries that have been evaluated both in the community and in a hospital-based ultrasound service with actual surgical findings, it is expected that specialist performed imaging and evaluation will be most accurate and that those performed in the community will be not accurate enough.

Ultrasound as a Diagnostic Tool for Rotator Cuff Tears

Gil Laufer, MD

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Ultrasound as a Diagnostic Tool for Rotator Cuff Tears: Accuracy of Results From the Community Versus Results From a Hospital-based Ultrasound Service and Surgical Findings

Ultrasound as a Diagnostic Tool for Rotator Cuff Tears

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