• Yazigi JuniorJoão AlbertoJA0000-0001-9383-2567MD. Doctoral Student and Attending Physician in the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Clinic, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), NicolaoFábio AnauateFA0000-0002-1347-346XMD. Doctoral Student and Attending Physician in the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Clinic, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São, Fabio Teruo Matsunaga, Nicola Archetti Netto, Marcelo Hide Matsumoto, and TamaokiMarcel Jun SugawaraMJS0000-0002-9539-4545MD, PhD. Adjunct Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil..
• MD. Doctoral Student and Attending Physician in the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Clinic, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil.
• Sao Paulo Med J. 2018 Jul 1; 136 (4): 292297292-297.

BackgroundThis study was designed to define the accuracy of shoulder ultrasonography for diagnosing supraspinatus tendon tears. This examination is routinely used by orthopedists and may do away with the need for other examinations for diagnosing these tendon injuries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of shoulder ultrasonography for diagnosing supraspinatus tendon injuries, using magnetic resonance imaging as the reference.Design And SettingProspective accuracy study at a single center: the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Clinic of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology.MethodsShoulder ultrasonography was performed on 80 patients of both genders, over 18 years of age, with complaints of shoulder pain and clinically suspected supraspinatus tendon lesions. Jobe's test and a full can test were performed. In addition, they underwent magnetic resonance imaging in a 3.0-tesla machine, as the reference standard. The examinations were performed and interpreted by radiologists.ResultsUltrasonography showed sensitivity of 36.3% and specificity of 91.7% for supraspinatus tears overall: sensitivity of 25.8% and specificity of 91.8% for partial tears and sensitivity of 46.2% and specificity of 100% for full-thickness tears. Ultrasonography showed high accuracy for diagnosing full-thickness tears: 91.3%. The p-values were 0.003 for tears overall, 0.031 for partial tears and < 0.001 for full-thickness tears.ConclusionsUltrasonography showed low sensitivity for detecting supraspinatus tears, but high specificity for both partial and full-thickness tears.

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