Reverse shoulder arthroplasty with a cementless short metaphyseal humeral prosthesis without a stem: survivorship, early to mid-term  clinical and radiological outcomes in a prospective study from an independent centre

ConclusionThis early to mid-term prospective study demonstrates excellent survivorship and radiological results of the Verso  reverse shoulder replacement. It needs a simple reproducible technique, and the results have been replicated at an independent centre. This study underlines its survivorship in the early to mid-term and confirms lower incidence of complications such as instability, notching, loosening and the need for revision surgery. Most importantly, it conserves the humeral bone stock for revision arthroplasties in the future. Our results are similar to those of the currently published literature.
Source: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology - Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research