Treatment and Outcomes of Chronic Locked Posterior Shoulder Dislocations: A Retrospective Case Series
Marco Filipponi, Alberto Casto, Giuseppe Rollo, Filippo Tonelli, Andrea Pautasso, Fabio D’Angelo, Pietro Maniscalco, Corrado Ciatti, Paolo Pichierri, Moshe Salai · 2025
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Description
A shoulder that dislocates backward and stays locked is rare, easily missed, and hard to fix late. Marco Filipponi and co-authors reviewed ten such cases treated at one Italian hospital between 2016 and 2022 in a 2025 paper. All ten patients were men, and diagnosis lagged the injury by six weeks on average, sometimes five months.
Lesions were graded by bone loss, and surgery followed the grade: tendon transposition, bone grafting, fracture repair, or a reverse prosthesis. Healing took about three months. Reverse prostheses gave the best early movement and satisfaction scores, while cancellous grafts caught up and passed them by twelve months. Tendon transposition cost some inward rotation and added pain. The authors distill a matching rule between damage pattern and operation for a condition most surgeons meet rarely.
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| CREATOR | Marco Filipponi, Alberto Casto, Giuseppe Rollo, Filippo Tonelli, Andrea Pautasso, Fabio D’Angelo, Pietro Maniscalco, Corrado Ciatti, Paolo Pichierri, Moshe Salai |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |