Article Text

Download PDFPDF
Correspondence
Treating SLAP II lesions with sham surgery
  1. Dafydd Sion Edwards,
  2. Len Funk
  1. Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dafydd Sion Edwards, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Wrightington Hospital, Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, Wigan, UK; taffedwards100{at}hotmail.com

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

We greatly enjoyed reading the most recent article by Shroder et al1 detailing their findings of a well thought out, executed and written-up randomised blinded trial of sham surgery versus labral repair or biceps tenodesis in the surgical management of a SLAP II lesion.

The SLAP lesion, as detailed by the authors, was first described by Snyder et al in 1990.2 The original classification details four distinct lesions of the superior labrum found on shoulder arthroscopy. Since …

View Full Text

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

Linked Articles