A Rare Encounter: Documenting a Rotator Cuff Tear Associated With Idiopathic Rice Bodies
Ekrem Özdemir, Oya Olcay Özdeş, Hüseyin Utku Özdeş, Shashank Kaushik · 2026
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Description
Özdemir and colleagues document a shoulder tear tangled up with rice bodies, small grain-like lumps that form in inflamed joints. Rice bodies usually appear in chronic inflammatory or autoimmune disease. Their patient, aged sixty-two, came in with pain and stiff movement in the left shoulder, a common complaint with a rare cause hiding behind it.
Scans showed clusters of rice body-like lumps under the shoulder blade's top edge, together with a torn rotator cuff. Finding them idiopathic, with no underlying disease to blame, makes the case rare. Reports like this alert surgeons that a routine tear repair may uncover these grains, which must be cleared out for the shoulder to heal well.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ekrem Özdemir, Oya Olcay Özdeş, Hüseyin Utku Özdeş, Shashank Kaushik |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |