Labrum is soft cartilage that lines the ball-and-socket joints of the shoulders. This cartilage encircles the glenoid, a cavity in the shoulder blade, providing protection and stability to the ...

Patients who have rotator cuff and capsular lesions, as well as a recent shoulder dislocation, consistently also have glenoid labrum or glenohumeral ligament lesions, Italian researchers found.

This week we are going to discuss a particularly problematic shoulder condition, the SLAP lesion. The SLAP lesion is an acronym which stands for superior labrum anterior to posterior. This is a tear ...

The shoulder labrum is a piece of soft cartilage in the socket-shaped joint in your shoulder bone. It cups the ball-shaped joint at the top of your upper arm bone, connecting the two joints. A group ...

Tears to the glenoid labrum—cartilage tissue that lines the shoulder where the arm joins—can be repaired with arthroscopic surgery, which significantly weakens the joint and involves a lengthy ...

Posterior instability is less common than anterior shoulder instability, encompassing approximately 10% of all shoulder instability in young active patients. The etiology of posterior instability is ...

What Is a Labrum SLAP Tear? A labrum SLAP tear is a tear in the cartilage that is part of your shoulder joint. A labrum is a rim of cartilage that goes around the socket part of a ball-and-socket ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Redwood City, California, USA Correspondence to Professor Marc R Safran, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, 450 Broadway ...

Radiology Department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London SW10 9NH, UK Correspondence to Dr Gonzalo Ansede, Radiology Department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, Chelsea, ...