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Glenohumeral Joint: Capsulolabroligamentous Lesions Part 2

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Now the Perthe lesion is slightly different.

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It's an anterior labral avulsion with an intact periosteum,

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no stripping of that periosteum or minimal stripping.

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And so that labrum is either non-displaced

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or minimally displaced.

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So when you look at your standard planes,

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you may not see much.

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If you're lucky, you'll see a little abnormal signal here,

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but it's in the a bear position abducted, externally rotated

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where you put tension on that anterior band that you may

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increase the degree of displacement.

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So I tend to call a per face lesion

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where the most dramatic abnormalities,

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and particularly maybe the only abnormalities are in

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the ABE projection.

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Let me show you a couple of cases.

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Here's what it looks like in this case.

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You can see some stripping of

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that anterior scapular periosteum, minimal displacement

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of the labrum, but a lot of similarities to the acute ssa.

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Here's what it looks like in the abducted,

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externally rotated position, abnormal contrast right here

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beneath the detached labrum.

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That is a Perth phase lesion. Here's another one.

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Now I can agree in this case that as I look at this,

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there is abnormality in the uh, axial plane,

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but it's in this ABE position where I see that better.

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That to me would be more likely a Perth phase lesion

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than an ole lesion.

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But clearly there is an overlap.

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Here's another one, A bear position, two different images.

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You can see the detached labrum,

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the strip periosteum,

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although it's not stripped over a long distance,

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this is a Perth lesion.

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I wanted to show you this case to point out.

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First, the difference between a perthe lesion shown here

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and a soft tissue bankart lesion shown here with disruption

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of the anterior scapular periosteum.

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And then I want to indicate this is the same

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patient, two different levels.

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So I can tell you the morphology changes level

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by level imaging plane by imaging plane, such

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that sometimes it becomes difficult separating

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out these lesions.

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The final lesion

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that I don't know if there's anything published on it,

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but we've certainly seen it in a few patients,

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is an ellipse lesion anterior ligamentous periosteal

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sleeve avulsion.

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Typically, in the three cases that I've seen,

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it's been bilateral

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and the patients have a feeling of slipping

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of their Glen Al joints.

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They all were young women who were athletes.

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The abnormality appears to be a detachment of

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that anter band from the labrum.

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So the labrum is not torn,

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It is not detached.

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It is in fact stripping of the attachment

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of the anterior band.

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And this is what it looks like

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shown best in the a bear position.

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The arrow showing you the anterior band,

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which is now attaching to bone, not to the labrum.

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You can see the space between them

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and the labrum is in normal position.

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Now, you could argue, is this traumatic,

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is this developmental?

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I don't know. Now, there are a couple

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of other miscellaneous lesions

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that have recently been described at the glenoid site

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of failure, and I've listed them here.

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They all have these abbreviations in my mind.

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Your orthopedic surgeon doesn't know any of them.

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Glenoid articular, uh, or labral. Articular teardrop, glat.

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There's a glass. There are two glass. There's a glaad.

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The G glad I'm gonna talk about in the next lecture.

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But what's occurring here is a flap of tissue

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composed some cases only of cartilage

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and other cases only of labrum

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or of both cartilage and labrum.

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And typically it's displaced downward into the aary pouch.

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These patients may have macro instability

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or micro instability.

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Here's another example.

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This one perhaps better called a glatt lesion.

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Here you can see that there's a flap

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of conroy tissue derived from the, an inferior aspect

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of the glenoid, and it's rotated inferiorly.

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And by the way, we call it a flap

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because it's still attached at one end.

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It is not a fragment.

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Here's what might be called a glass lesion.

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oid labral, articular flap.

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This, these can be co composed of cartilage

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or cartilage in labrum together.

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And this is what they look like.

Report

Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

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