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Multidirectional Shoulder Instability Wheeless

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Description: multidirectional instability implies three-way subluxations or dislocations either anteriorly, posteriorly, or inferiorly;
- these patients usually have no true Bankart lesion and incontrast patients have a capacious axillary pouch;
- affects overhead throwing atheletes, gymnasts, swimmers;
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: C.R.Wheeless
Institution: Duke
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Language: English

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