case_images: PMC5303850_01
case_images: MRI axial T1 showing full-thickness PM tear at the humeral tendon-bone junction.
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case_images: fig1
case_images: MRI identified (1) full-thickness PM tear at the humeral tendon-bone junction including both pectoral heads (Figure 1), (2) tendon retracted medial to the anterior chest wall (Figure 2), (3) absence of any muscle fatty infiltration, and (4) a calcification inside the conjoint tendon immediately under its coracoid insertion (Figure 3).
case_images: MRI axial T1 showing tendon retracted medial to the anterior chest wall and absence of any muscle fatty infiltration.
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case_images: PMC5303850_01_CRIOR2017-2095407.002.jpg
case_images: fig2
case_images: MRI identified (1) full-thickness PM tear at the humeral tendon-bone junction including both pectoral heads (Figure 1), (2) tendon retracted medial to the anterior chest wall (Figure 2), (3) absence of any muscle fatty infiltration, and (4) a calcification inside the conjoint tendon immediately under its coracoid insertion (Figure 3).
case_images: MRI axial T1 showing calcification inside the conjoint tendon immediately under its coracoid insertion.
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case_images: PMC5303850_01_CRIOR2017-2095407.003.jpg
case_images: fig3
case_images: MRI identified (1) full-thickness PM tear at the humeral tendon-bone junction including both pectoral heads (Figure 1), (2) tendon retracted medial to the anterior chest wall (Figure 2), (3) absence of any muscle fatty infiltration, and (4) a calcification inside the conjoint tendon immediately under its coracoid insertion (Figure 3).
case_images: Intraoperative photograph demonstrating the gap between the footprint and the stump.
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case_images: fig4
case_images: The gap between the footprint and the stump was more than 5 cm (Figure 4).
case_images: Intraoperative photograph, with the free border of the graft sutured at the PM.
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case_images: fig5
case_images: The fan-shaped free border of the graft was sutured into the muscle belly with Mason-Allen and Krachow stitches using nonabsorbable suture (Ultrabraid, Smith & Nephew) arm in neutral rotation (Figure 5).
case_images: Intraoperative photograph with Vicryl plate wrapped around the graft.
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case_images: fig6
case_images: A Vicryl plate (Ethicon) was wrapped around the graft, in order to secure the sutures (Figure 6).