Bicipital Groove Morphology

A shallow bicipital groove was defined as having an opening angle 94.

Bicipital groove morphology. The measurement of bicipital groove morphology showed in table 2. Prior to the widespread use of 3d imaging specialised radiographic views were described to characterise morphologies of the bicipital groove thought to predispose to lhbt pathology 29 31 these include a shallow and wide depth 2 4 mm or deep and narrow groove opening angle 80 depth 4 5 mm a low medial wall angle 30 and. We assessed bicipital groove morphology width depth and the presence of a medial spur at 8 to 10 sections of 1 mm slices of axial images from the top of the humeral head. Medial wall spurs were found in 4 of grade 0 cases 53.

We are grateful for the help of soo kim md for editorial and statistical. However bicipital tendon disease was more common as rotator cuff disease became more extensive. The bony morphology of the bicipital groove was measured in terms of opening angle medial wall angle and depth. Methods patient population and study design the clinical records of 1093 patients who admitted with.

We do not find any value in bicipital groove morphology measured by mri as a predictor of biceps tendon or rotator cuff pathology at the time of surgery. We compared shoulders with stable and unstable lhbt regarding bicipital bony morphology. The pathologies of biceps tendon are frequent causes of shoulder pain. In arthroscopic evaluation of lhb tendon there were 24 grade 0 15 grade 1 13 grade 2 4 lhb disappeared table 1.

The bony morphology of the bicipital groove was measured in terms of opening angle medial wall angle and depth. Purpose we aimed to evaluate the influence of the bony morphology of the bicipital groove on the stability of the long head of the biceps tendon lhbt methods among the patients who underwent magn. Diabetes mellitus and bicipital groove morphology as explanatory variables. A shallow bicipital groove was defined as having an opening angle 94 concurrent with earlier studies.

Therefore under the condition of paucity of data pertaining to north indians not only morphometric analysis of bicipital groove and a new definition of narrow. Therefore under the condition of paucity of data pertaining to north indians not only morphometric analysis of bicipital groove and a new definition of narrow shallow groove to provide logical explanation for dependence of pathologies of biceps tendon on groove morphology is done but also a review of the literature has been carried out.