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A Bankart repair is an operation for habitual anterior shoulder dislocation.[1] The joint capsule is sewed to the detached glenoid labrum, without duplication of the subscapularis tendon.
| Bankart repair | |
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| ICD-9-CM | 81.82 |
The procedure is named for the Bankart lesion, a common name for the condition it addresses. The condition was named for British surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart, who first described it in the British Medical Journal in 1923.[2]
References
edit- ^ Craig, Edward V. (2004). The shoulder. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-0-7817-3590-2. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ^ Bankart ASB. Recurrent or habitual dislocation of the shoulder-joint. Br Med J 1923
External links
edit- Bankart lesion at Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
- Bankart Repair Video at Journal of Medical Insight
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