Ultrasonography may be a reliable and accurate diagnostic method for subscapularis tears, according to published results.
Researchers performed and interpreted preoperative ultrasonography and MRI among 437 patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair from January 2019 to December 2020. Using arthroscopic findings as the gold standard, researchers calculated the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy of ultrasonography and MRI.
At the time of arthroscopy, researchers identified subscapularis tears in 157 patients, of whom 126 had