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Glenohumeral Joint: Humeral & Humaeral-Glenoid Failure

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Now we move down our list to humeral failure,

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failure at the humeral site of attachment of the anter band,

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of the inferior lial ligament.

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And here we deal with what has been called a hagel lesion

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and if there's a bony counterpart, a

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what's called a vagal lesion or be hagel lesion.

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So we're not dealing with failure here,

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but over here, let me show you a few examples.

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First of all, this is often associated with involvement

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of the axi pouch

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and often also the posterior band

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typically occurs in a slightly older group.

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Generally the patients over the age of 30,

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and particularly if you see dislocations in middle age

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or elderly persons, you better be looking for failure

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at the humeral site, the hagel lesion,

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hyper abduction, external rotation.

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And there are other lesions

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that involve structures about the glenohumeral joint.

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It may be overlooked at surgery.

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So here's an important role for you to mention it

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because the orthopedic surgeon will then look for it.

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So let me show you in this example, I have a yellow arrow on

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the inferior

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or the anterior band of the inferior glen ligament complex.

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And that where that yellow arrow is should be

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where it attaches to the humerus.

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But there's a large gap here.

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Maybe there's a little bit

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of tissue still attached to the humerus.

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So here in fact is that anterior band running from the

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glenoid over to that area, but no further.

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So this is a humeral of b******t. And here's the pearl.

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Whenever you see this particular problem,

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there can be problems of other tendons of the rotator cuff

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and especially look for the subscapularis tendon

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and especially its deep portion.

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And here's an example that is a detachment

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of the deeper portion of the subscapularis tendon.

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So please look for that. Here's another example.

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This is in fact that anter band

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of the inferior glen mal ligament complex kind of ends here.

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It should go up to the humerus. It doesn't.

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This is a hagel lesion and one vagal lesion.

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This is a bone evulsion occurring at the humeral attachment

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of the Anter band shown by Mr

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and by ct

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and also by conventional radiography outlined

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by the arrows in this uh, case.

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So a B haal lesion.

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Now there are a lot of posterior counterparts.

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Uh, I'll mention them with the very last slide in this talk.

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I'm not gonna illustrate 'em other than this one.

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So this is a posterior humeral evulsion

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of the glen ligament.

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I've seen a number of these that is the posterior band.

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It should be attaching to the humerus.

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I've seen them only in the acute situation.

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There's always a lot of edema in these cases.

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And there may be tearing of the,

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particularly the infraspinatus tendon.

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There was some in this particular case.

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And then finally at the bottom of the list,

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somewhat rare supposedly,

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but it may not be as rare as indicated, okay, is a

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floating ligament failure at more than one site.

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Here we can see failure of that anterior band

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involving a bone bank art lesion as well

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as a hagel lesion shown better ear.

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Here's the bone bank art.

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So this is called a floating anor band

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of the inferior glen mal ligament.

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But let's kind of review what these look like.

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Here's my drawing, glenoid labrum anor band

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of the uh, inferior lium mal ligament is shown.

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I'm showing you the scapular periosteum.

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Let's look at the lesions we've talked about.

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The first of these is the soft tissue bank art lesion.

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We wi deal with a detached displaced labrum, okay,

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a torn anterior scapular periosteum.

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So the degree of displacement may be extensive

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and you end up with complex tissue, irregular

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and outline consisting of periosteum, consisting

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of ligament, and consisting of labrum.

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The second is the sal, where you get a detached labrum

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and an intact,

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although stripped anterior scapular periosteum.

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So this labrum may move but not very far.

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Typically you should look

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for it near the inferior aspect of the glenoid.

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Here's what it looks like with an acute SIL lesion,

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and you can see the stripped anterior scapular curiosity.

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The third of these is a a little bit more

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difficult to identify.

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The degree of displacement is less dramatic.

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I call it a Perth phase lesion when I see it only

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or certainly best in the a bear position.

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And this is what it looks like when you deal

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with an older person.

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The abnormality may occur at the humeral site

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of uh, attachment.

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Here's an example showing you that with the white arrow

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humeral detachment of the anterior band,

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of the inferior glen ligament complex.

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And then the floating ligament shown here with failure

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at both ends, humeral attachment as well

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as the bone banquet.

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Now we're gonna finish up in the last three

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or four slides talking about the idea of a circle

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or ring concept, emphasizing the importance

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that if you find one abnormality

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In the excitement that follows, keep looking

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because there may in be another abnormality.

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And that's the concept that when you have ring-like

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structures as we have here with glenoid and ERUs

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and ligaments, both anteriorly

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and posteriorly, more than one lesion may occur.

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For example, with an anterior dislocation, you may get

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a soft tissue bancar lesion, but over time,

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or even at the same time,

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you may get a posterior haal lesion.

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If we deal with a posterior dislocation, you may start

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with a posterior haal lesion

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and over a period of time you may develop an anterior haal

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lesion or some other break in the ring

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and to show that with one particular case.

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This is an example of a soft tissue bank art lesion

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here, a posterior hagel lesion shown here.

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It's some, it was a hill sax lesion.

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You see all of the marrow edema associated with it.

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So this is the circle

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or ring concept if you find one abnormality, keep looking.

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And my last slide shown here is with all of these names

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that we have in our literature describing so many

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lesions differing in their site of abnormality

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or degree of abnormality, we have similar lesions

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that occur posteriorly.

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I'm not gonna discuss those today, but they too have names.

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I've listed some on this particular slide.

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We'll have to save that discussion for another day.

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So what I've done in this, uh,

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lecture over my allotted period of time is

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to run ba down the left side of that table.

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We looked at macro instability in an anterior direction,

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and indeed we looked at failure at the glenoid site

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of attachment for varieties, failure in the capsule,

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failure at the humeral site or failure at multiple sites.

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I thank you very much for your attention.

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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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Shoulder

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI