HORIZONTAL TEAR OF ROTATOR CUFF: ITS MORPHOLOGY AND SURGICAL TREATMENT
1987 年 11 巻 1 号 p. 103-107
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1987 年 11 巻 1 号 p. 103-107
The large horizontal tear is one of the big problems in the repair of the rotator cuff tear. This problem, nevertheless, has not been discussed scrupulously. Though they had been repaired by multiple suturing in situ or by resection of the whole affected tendon and advancement, the results were generally poor. The causes of this poor results were thought to be that multiple suturing in situ did not physiologically reconstruct the damaged tendon, and also that the resection left too large defect to repair in an usual manner (Fig.1).
Therefore, we have been attempting to observe the fine structure of the horizontal tear and then to reconstruct it into physiological condition according to estimation from the observation. We expected that this method was useful to minimize the resecting portion of the tendon.
