Medicine:Acromioplasty

Acromioplasty
Specialty	Orthopaedic

Acromioplasty is an arthroscopic surgical procedure of the acromion.

Generally, it implies removal of a small piece of the surface of the bone (acromion) that is in contact with a tendon causing, by friction, damage to the tendon.

Further reading

• Beard, David J; Rees, Jonathan L; Cook, Jonathan A et al. (January 2018). "Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial". The Lancet 391 (10118): 329–338. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32457-1. PMID 29169668. 

External links

• Video of an arthroscopic acromioplasty