Biceps Management During Rotator Cuff Tear: Confounding Variables Result in Unclear Indications

Is “killing the biceps” during rotator cuff repair a capital crime or a lawful act? One of the most passionately debated topics in shoulder surgery is what to do with the biceps during rotator cuff repair: save, tenotomize, or tenodese. Results of repair are not very successful, and as repair of ma ssive rotator cuff tears shows a 40-57% failure rate, there is renewed interest in sparing the biceps tendon as a humeral head depressor, or so that it may be used as a local graft for revision rotator cuff repair.
Source: Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Commentary Source Type: research