Medicine

Fatty degeneration of the muscles of the rotator cuff: assessment by computed tomography versus magnetic resonance imaging.

B. Fuchs, D. Weishaupt, M. Zanetti, J. Hodler, C. Gerber

1999.11.1JOURNAL OF SHOULDER AND ELBOW SURGERY

DOI: 10.1016/s1058-2746(99)90097-6

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The degree of fatty degeneration was significantly related to the amount of atrophy of the respective muscles and the classification system was simplified with only a 3- rather than a 5-grade scale as originally proposed.

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FUCHS, B., et al. Fatty degeneration of the muscles of the rotator cuff: Assessment by computed tomography versus magnetic resonance imaging. JOURNAL OF SHOULDER AND ELBOW SURGERY, 1999, 8 6: 599–605.