Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty
Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty is becoming a common form of shoulder arthroplasty that is often performed in the setting of rotator cuff pathology. Infection is a rare complication but is more common in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty than in hemiarthroplasty or anatomic total shoulder arth...
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pubmed-48789342016-06-02 Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty Letter, Haley P. Limback, Joseph Wasyliw, Christopher Bancroft, Laura Scherer, Kurt Case Report Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty is becoming a common form of shoulder arthroplasty that is often performed in the setting of rotator cuff pathology. Infection is a rare complication but is more common in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty than in hemiarthroplasty or anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty. We present the case of a 69-year-old patient with a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty who presented with purulent drainage from the skin of his anterior shoulder. Computed tomography arthrogram confirmed the presence of a synovial cutaneous fistula. Synovial cutaneous fistula is a rare variant of periprosthetic infection that, to our knowledge, has not been described previously in the setting of a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. Computed tomography arthrogram proved to be a reliable method for confirming the diagnosis and was used for operative planning to remove the hardware. Elsevier 2016-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4878934/ /pubmed/27257460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2016.02.014 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty |
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Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty |
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Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty |
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Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty |
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Synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty |
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synovial cutaneous fistula complicating a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty |
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Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty is becoming a common form of shoulder arthroplasty that is often performed in the setting of rotator cuff pathology. Infection is a rare complication but is more common in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty than in hemiarthroplasty or anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty. We present the case of a 69-year-old patient with a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty who presented with purulent drainage from the skin of his anterior shoulder. Computed tomography arthrogram confirmed the presence of a synovial cutaneous fistula. Synovial cutaneous fistula is a rare variant of periprosthetic infection that, to our knowledge, has not been described previously in the setting of a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. Computed tomography arthrogram proved to be a reliable method for confirming the diagnosis and was used for operative planning to remove the hardware. |
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