cover image: Infraspinatus muscle atrophy in a 23-year-old hockey player

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Infraspinatus muscle atrophy in a 23-year-old hockey player

5 Oct 2023

for more than 6 months and major atrophy has occurred, muscle After radiographs revealed no abnormalities, a magnetic reson- bulk and strength may be permanently damaged.1–3 ance imaging study showed a superior labrum anterior and post- erior (SLAP) tear and an associated large paral abral cyst compress- References ing the suprascapular nerve at the spino glenoid notch (Figure 1B). [...] Suprascapular nerve pathol- Two years after we evacuated the arthroscopic cyst and ogy: a review of the literature. [...] repaired the SLAP lesion, the patient has full recovery of the 2. [...] The suprascapular nerve innervates the supraspinatus and 3. [...] standard in confirming the diagnosis.1 Content licence: This is an Open Access article distributed in accord- Paralabral cysts, which are accumulations of synovial fluid ance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND escaping the glenohumeral joint through a labral tear, are the 4.0) licence, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the or.
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