Mehmet Çetinkaya, Ulunay Kanatlı, Muhammet Baybars Ataoğlu, Mustafa Özer, Tacettin Ayanoğlu, Selçuk Bölükbaşı
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to identify the forelock sign of partial tears of the subscapularis and to compare the incidences of this sign and air bag sign. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred and twenty patients (39 males, 81 females; mean age 51.3 years; range, 25 to 79) diagnosed as isolated subscapularis tear or isolated supraspinatus tear from among patients who underwent shoulder arthroscopy between January 2013 and January 2016 were divided into four groups of 30 patients each as the subscapularis tear (group 1), full-thickness supraspinatus tear (group 2), bursal-side supraspinatus tear (group 3), and articular-side supraspinatus tear (group 4) groups...
December 2019: Joint Diseases & related Surgery