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Critical shoulder angle combined with age predict five shoulder pathologies: a retrospective analysis of 1000 cases

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, June 2017
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Title
Critical shoulder angle combined with age predict five shoulder pathologies: a retrospective analysis of 1000 cases
Published in
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12891-017-1559-4
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Philipp R. Heuberer, Fabian Plachel, Lukas Willinger, Philipp Moroder, Brenda Laky, Leo Pauzenberger, Fritz Lomoschitz, Werner Anderl

Abstract

Acromial morphology has previously been defined as a risk factor for some shoulder pathologies. Yet, study results are inconclusive and not all major shoulder diseases have been sufficiently investigated. Thus, the aim of the present study was to analyze predictive value of three radiological parameters including the critical shoulder angle, acromion index, and lateral acromion angle in relationship to symptomatic patients with either cuff tear arthropathy, glenohumeral osteoarthritis, rotator cuff tear, impingement, and tendinitis calcarea. A total of 1000 patients' standardized true-anteroposterior radiographs were retrospectively assessed. Receiver-operating curve analyses and multinomial logistic regression were used to examine the association between shoulder pathologies and acromion morphology. The prediction model was derived from a development cohort and applied to a validation cohort. Prediction model's performance was statistically evaluated. The majority of radiological measurements were significantly different between shoulder pathologies, but the critical shoulder angle was an overall better parameter to predict and distinguish between the different pathologies than the acromion index or lateral acromion angle. Typical critical shoulder angle-age patterns for the different shoulder pathologies could be detected. Patients diagnosed with rotator cuff tears had the highest, whereas patients with osteoarthritis had the lowest critical shoulder angle. The youngest patients were in the tendinitis calcarea and the oldest in the cuff tear arthropathy group. The present study showed that critical shoulder angle and age, two easily assessable variables, adequately predict different shoulder pathologies in patients with shoulder complaints.

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Unknown 106 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 13 12%
Researcher 13 12%
Student > Master 13 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 9%
Other 21 20%
Unknown 24 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 43%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 11%
Sports and Recreations 5 5%
Engineering 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 34 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2021.
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#6,642,268
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#1,250
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#103,100
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#29
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