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aspiration and steroid injection.
13%
97/727
rest.
4%
29/727
acromioplasty.
2%
11/727
arthroscopic repair and decompression.
74%
536/727
rehabilitation.
7%
50/727
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The MRI scans reveal a large posterior paralabral cyst associated with a posterior-superior labral tear. The cyst appears as a well-defined, smoothly marginated mass with low signal intensity on T1-weighted MRI scans and with high signal intensity on T2-weighted MRI scans. MRI also reveals changes in the supraspinatus and infraspinatus muscles secondary to denervation, including decreased muscle bulk and fatty infiltration. MRI has the added advantage, compared with other imaging modalities, of detecting intra-articular lesions, such as labral tears, which are frequently associated with ganglion cysts of the shoulder. In this case of a professional baseball player with a space-occupying lesion causing nerve compression with an associated labral tear, the treatment of choice is arthroscopic decompression of the cyst and repair of the tear. Acromioplasty would not address the primary pathology in this patient.
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