Rotator Cuff and Deltoid Involvement Are Associated with Shoulder Instability After Proximal Humerus Megaprosthetic Reconstruction
Luigi Cianni, Sara Martellini, Raffaele Vitiello, Alessandro El Motassime, Giulio Maccauro, Maristella Francesca Saccomanno · 2026
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Description
Luigi Cianni and co-authors study shoulder instability after upper arm bone replacement with a large implant, in work from two thousand twenty-six. Such implants save the limb after bone tumors, but the shoulder can slip out of place. Twenty-five patients treated over a decade were split by whether dislocation followed.
Six patients had instability and dislocation. Tumor spread into the shoulder cuff muscles was present in all six, and into the deltoid in most. Both rates were far lower in stable patients. Length of bone removed did not split the groups. Shoulder function scores were much the same either way.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Luigi Cianni, Sara Martellini, Raffaele Vitiello, Alessandro El Motassime, Giulio Maccauro, Maristella Francesca Saccomanno |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |