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Hill-Sachs lesion



In orthopaedics, a Hill-Sachs lesion is damage to the posterosuperior (or posterior) humeral head due to repeated (anterior) shoulder dislocation.[1][2] It is often accompanied by a Bankart lesion, an injury of the anterior (or anteroinferior) glenoid labrum.

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References

  1. ^ Widjaja A, Tran A, Bailey M, Proper S (2006). "Correlation between Bankart and Hill-Sachs lesions in anterior shoulder dislocation". ANZ J Surg 76 (6): 436-8. PMID 16768763.
  2. ^ Hill-Sachs lesion. Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/asp/dictionary.asp?keyword=Hill-Sachs+lesion. Accessed on: October 19, 2007.
 
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