SLAP tear surgery can be the most common and effective labrum repair. But you and your doctor can consider some alternative treatments, depending on the severity of the injury. These include: ...

This is a tear of the glenoid labrum which is a fibrocartilaginous ring which surrounds the socket of the shoulder. At the top of this ring is […] Skip to content ...

Therefore, a MRI of the shoulder specifically a MRI arthrogram is often needed to identify the SLAP tear. This is a test in which dye is injected into the shoulder before the MRI is taken.

Since superior labrum lesions were first described in 1985 and the term “SLAP” lesion was coined in 1990, surgeons began to fixate on that region as a pain generator, especially in the ...

Cite this: Sports Medicine Feature - The Recognition and Treatment of Superior Labral Anterior-Posterior (SLAP) Lesions in the Shoulder - Medscape - Nov 01, 1998. Abstract and Introduction ...

Hip Labral Tear Surgery Scar. Minimally invasive procedures like arthroscopy use small “keyhole” cuts. You may have three or four tiny cuts that fade quickly. If you need open surgery, you may have a ...

Shoulder pain is a common complaint in overhead athletes, and superior labrum anterior posterior (SLAP) lesions are a common cause of this pain. The pathological cascade which results in the SLAP ...

MRI. Iannotti [] reported magnetic resonance imaging of shoulders with glenohumeral instability had a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 93% in detecting labral pathology. In this case, a ...