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Shoulder Joint Surgery - Rotator Cuff Tendon Repair. This medical illustration series pictures classic elements of post-traumatic shoulder impingement syndrome. Detailed views of the right shoulder describe the pre-operative traumatic spurring to the undersurfaces of the acromio-clavicular (ac) joint space with several steps of the standard arthroscopically assisted, and open decompression surgery with removal of impingement.
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