Mendoza RJJ, Ornelas BJP, Echauri ME, Gutiérrez RF

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 217-226
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Shoulder is one of the skeleton muscle regions that frequently demand the Ultrasound Service (US), at both, the private level and the institutional one, whether at national or international level. From there, it is important to know how to exploit and maximize the use of this imaging method, as well as having a complete knowledge of the normal ultrasound-anatomy of the structures comprising the shoulder, for both, its static behavior as well as the dynamic one. Unfortunately, there is little literature that practically and methodologically describes the exploration of all this structures.
Purpose: To disseminate exploratory techniques with ultrasound for the shoulder, and looking for a new ultrasound anatomical-ultrasound examination of the structures comprising the shoulder and that may be studied by this imaging method in a reliable manner.
Material and Methods: Anatomical review of the shoulder, from both the morphological as well as the ultrasound point of view, describing and pointing out the structures to be explored through this method of study, as well as describing the exploratory technique used for each anatomical structure in a dynamical, practical and methodical form.
Results and conclusions: Knowledge for all anatomical structures that may be studied by ultrasound is of vital importance for obtaining a more accurate diagnosis, since in a very important series of articles it has been shown that this method of study has the high sensitiveness and specificity in the identification of alterations at the shoulder level. It is worth mentioning that without attempting to demerit any imaging method, but, keeping always in mind that those methods are complementary.

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