Anterior Acromioplasty

Abstract

Partial or complete acromionectomy has been advocated for the operative treatment for chronic bursitis and partial or complete tears of the rotator cuff.
Neer II emphasized that Impingement of the rotator cuff as one of the cases of chronic disability of the shoulder lied the anterior part of the undersurface of acromion.
For the past one-half years, anterior acromioplasyt has been done in 6 cases of the shoulder lesions in our department.
This paper discribed also in reference to anatomical findings of inspection of 60 dissected scapulae with special attension to the anterior part of acromion.