Minimally invasive arthroscopic shoulder impingement treatment

Rimtautas Gudas, Romas Jonas Kalesinskas, Ramūnas Tamošiūnas, Giedrius Bernotavičius

Clinic of Orthopedics and Traumathology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania

Key words: shoulder joint, arthroscopy, interscalenic block.

Summary. Between 2000 and 2002 thirty four patients were evaluated after arthroscopic acromionplasty procedures. Patients had different shoulder pathology and were evaluated 15±1.2 months post operations through Constant scale and with x-rays. The mean age of patients was 42±6.5 years during operations.

Twenty eight (82.3%) arthroscopic assisted acromionplasties results were good at the time of last follow-up. Final evaluation showed statistically significantly improvement of the Constant results from 26±6.24 preoperatively to 60±7.56 postoperatively (p<0.05).

Correspondence to R. Gudas, Clinic of Orthopedics and Traumathology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Eivenių 2, 3007 Kaunas, Lithuania. E-mail: rimtautas@kmu.lt

Received 21 March 2003, accepted 14 May 2003