What's new in shoulder surgery

The purpose of this update on shoulder surgery is to discuss, in summary fa shion, topics presented at selected orthopaedic meetings during the time-pe riod of August 1999 to July 2000. Sources for this article were presentatio ns and symposia at meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (Specialty Day, Orlando, Florida, March 2000, and the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting, Sun Valley Idaho, June 2000), the Arthroscopy Association of North America (Specialty Day, Orlando, Florida, March 2000, and the Nine teenth Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, April 2000), the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, Marc h 2000), the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (Specialty Day, Orlando, Florida, March 2000, and the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsy lvania, October 1999), and the American Orthopaedic Association (113th Annu al Meeting, Hot Springs, Virginia, June 2000).