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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 78:633-5 (1996)
© 1996 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

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Thomas L. Pope, Jr., M.D., Jerry S. Sher, M.D., John W. Uribe, M.D., Alejandro Posada, M.D., Brian J. Murphy, M.D. and Michael B. Zlatkin, M.D.

TO THE EDITOR:

I am writing in reference to "Abnormal Findings on Magnetic Resonance Images of Asymptomatic Shoulders" (77-A: 10–15, Jan. 1995), by Sher et al. The authors are to be commended for performing magnetic resonance imaging on a group of asymptomatic individuals. Not surprisingly, the results showed a clear increase in magnetic resonance imaging findings in the older population: 50 per cent of the individuals who were more than sixty years old were said to have evidence of either a full or a partial-thickness tear of the rotator cuff.

In my opinion, there are some shortcomings in this study. The first is that only oblique coronal images were made for all of the patients. It is well known that suspected abnormal findings on oblique coronal images should be correlated with the findings on oblique sagittal images. The lack of such correlation possibly altered some of the interpretations of partial . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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