Three patients with long-standing disabling shoulder pain underwent arthros
copic examination. Two of the 3 had preoperative magnetic resonance imaging
scans showing complete rotator cuff tears confirmed at surgery. The third
patient was found to have a partial-thickness bursal surface cuff tear. In
addition, each patient was found to have a quite prominent posterior superi
or glenoid osteophyte located beneath an unstable type II SLAP lesion.