Bicipital Groove Morphology

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.

Bicipital groove morphology. We are grateful for the help of soo kim md for editorial and statistical. 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. The variant morphometry of bicipital groove is reported to be associated with pathologies of biceps tendon and is useful in surgical procedures in this region. Methods patient population and study design the clinical records of 1093 patients who admitted with.

However bicipital tendon disease was more common as rotator cuff disease became more extensive. 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. The pathologies of biceps tendon are frequent causes of shoulder pain. A the width of the bicipital groove white arrow was measured as the distance between the medial and lateral sides at the top of the groove.

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. 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. In arthroscopic evaluation of lhb tendon there were 24 grade 0 15 grade 1 13 grade 2 4 lhb disappeared table 1. 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.

Medial wall spurs were found in 4 of grade 0 cases 53. The bony morphology of the bicipital groove was measured in terms of opening angle medial wall angle and depth. We compared shoulders with stable and unstable lhbt regarding bicipital bony morphology. Bicipital groove bony morphology and lhbt instability and to determine the cut off values of the depth of the bicipital groove dbg the medial wall angle mwa and the total opening angle toa.

The measurement of bicipital groove morphology showed in table 2. Diabetes mellitus and bicipital groove morphology as explanatory variables.