This report describes a patient who had an open repair of a small supraspinatus tendon tear performed 6 months after an arthroscopic acromioplasty with debridement had failed to provide pain relief. Three months prior to the tendon repair, he had a two-level cervical spine discectomy and fusion (C4-5, C5-6) that improved his neck pain. Florid suprascapular neuropathy was detected 10 weeks after...

Introduction. When using the double interval slide technique for arthroscopic repair of chronic large or massive rotator cuff tears, the posterior interval release is directed toward the scapular spine until the fat pad that protects the suprascapular nerve is reached. Injury to the suprascapular nerve can occur due to the nerve's proximity to the operative field. This study aimed to identify s...

PURPOSE To determine the association of the area of sensory disturbance with the area of suprascapular nerve (SSN) palsy in healthy volunteers and patients with SSN palsy. METHODS Five male and one female and healthy volunteers aged 23 to 44 (mean age, 32.2) years underwent an experiment of distal and proximal SSN block (at the spinoglenoid notch and suprascapular notch, respectively). A pinp...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of latent and manifest suprascapular neuropathy in high-level male volleyball players. Thirty subjects were examined clinically and electrophysiologically. Suprascapular neuropathy, most probably at the level of the suprascapular notch, was demonstrated in 12 subjects, being latent in eight. Taking into account our clinical findings in...

We read the interesting article on suprascapular notch morphology and distance from the glenoid cavity in a Kenyan population by Sinkeet et al. [1]. Both in the text and in Tables 4 and 5 the authors report that Natsis et al. [2] studied the suprascapular notch morphology in Greek scapulae, whereas in the Materials and Methods section of our article it is clearly stated that our study was carri...

A forty-one-year-old male patient was referred to our department of Radiology for left shoulder pain and reduced mobility. There was no history of trauma, infection nor therapeutic intervention. A plain radiograph (Fig. A) of the left shoulder showed the presence of two small roundshaped lucent bubbles in the soft tissue above the glenoid. An additional ultrasound examination revealed the prese...

RATIONALE Suprascapular nerve compression is a rare but important entity that is often missed in clinical practice. Nerve dysfunction caused by an intraosseous ganglion of the glenoid is extremely rare, to the best of our knowledge, only 1 case of suprascapular nerve entrapment due to an intraosseous ganglion cyst has been reported previously in the published literature. PATIENT CONCERNS We r...

This study reports origins of the suprascapular artery from the third part of the axillary artery, bilaterally. The arteries, situated far below the clavicle, ascended upwards between the lateral and posterior cords of brachial plexus. The arteries joined the suprascapular nerves medial to the inferior belly of the omohyoid. The left and right arteries measured around 8 centimeters each, up to ...

INTRODUCTION Suprascapular nerve neuropathy constitutes an unusual cause of shoulder weakness, with the most common etiology being nerve compression from a ganglion cyst at the suprascapular or spinoglenoid notch. We present a puzzling case of a man with suprascapular nerve neuropathy that may have been associated with an appendectomy. The case was attributed to nerve injury as the most likely ...