PERCUTANEOUS TREATMENTS OF PAINFUL SHOULDER

Percutaneous treatments are useful in two, frequent, painful condition s involving the shoulder. In frozen shoulder syndrome, distention arth rography with intra-articular injection of steroid is used to provide pain relief and to improve joint motion. In rotator cuff tendon calici fications, needle aspiration of calcific deposits is used to treat pai n. Surgery should be restricted to failures of needle aspiration. The techniques of these procedures are described and their results are rep orted.