Over the last decade, the concept of internal impingement has continued to evolve, and the frequency with which this condition is recognised continues to increase. This syndrome should be clearly ...

a) subacromial bursitis - coronal PD fat saturated image showing region of hyperintensity in the subacromial bursa (black arrow); b) partial thickness, articular surface supraspinatus tear (white ...

Presented at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May 26, 1943. This article has been released for publication by the Division of Publications of the Bureau of Medicine ...

We utilized a CNN-autoencoder that predicts boundary contour points of humeral cortex and subacromial bursa directly from raw US images rather than the popular pixel-wise semantic segmentation.

Background Shoulder complaints are the third most common cause of musculoskeletal problems. Subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) is the most frequent cause of shoulder pain. SIS is a clinical ...

The subacromial bursa is a synovial-like tissue located between the rotator cuff and the acromion. Traditionally, it has been removed during rotator cuff surgeries due to its perceived role in ...

Many surgeons remove the bursa when repairing rotator cuff injuries, but a new animal study suggests that the small tissue helps with healing.

Studies with human bursa samples and in rats with tendon injuries showed that the subacromial bursa helped protect intact structures and promoted inflammatory responses in injured tendons ...

Shoulder pain resembling a rotator cuff or labrum injury may be a result of subacromial bursa irritation. Removal of the bursa often relieves pain and improves range of motion.