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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 61, Issue 5 668-677, Copyright © 1979 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

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Glenohumeral arthrodesis. Operative and long-term functional results

RH Cofield and BT Briggs

Seventy-one shoulders of seventy patients were fused for treatment of various conditions, and the results were analyzed after an average follow up of nine years and six months. The operative technique always included the use of internal fixation. The average position of arthrodesis was 45 degrees of abduction and 25 degrees of flexion of the arm, with the flexed forearm rotated 21 degrees above the horizontal plane, measured with the arm abducted and flexed. In sixty-eight shoulders, one operation achieved a solid fusion; in the other three, a second arthrodesis was required. Complications included tenderness over the outer ends of the internal fixation device, which required its removal from seventeen shoulders; a fracture in the fused extremity in ten patients; and a post-operative infection in one. Relief of pain was adequate in three-quarters of the patients. Three-quarters of the patients could perform activities involving reaching the trunk, one-half could do activities requiring reaching the head, and one-quarter were able to do light work with the arm at shoulder level or higher. The position of fusion had little effect on the result. Eighty-two per cent of the entire group believed that they had benefited from the operation, and none of the results deteriorated with time.
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