Ultrasound in Assessment of Supraspinatus Tendon Injury: Correlation with Arthroscopy.

IntroductIon Rotator cuff injuries are common in all athletic. Of all rotator cuff injuries, the supraspinatus tendon involves mostly. Severe supraspinatus tendon injury may affect the patient’s quality of life. However, supraspinatus tendon injury can be relatively asymptomatic in some cases and may require sonographic examination for diagnosis.[1,2] With continued improvement in shoulder arthroscopy, surgical treatment for supraspinatus tendon injury has become more effective and less invasive.[3] Therefore, there has been increasing demand for the accurate morphologic and dynamic characterization of both the severity and location of supraspinatus tendon injury to guide management.[4]