shoulder problems presenting at birth
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Shoulder problems presenting
at birth
Prof P. Bala
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Shoulder problems presenting at
birth1. Birth injuries-
brachial plexus lesions
fracture clavicle
fracture humerus
2. Congenital conditions-
congenital undescended scapula
congenital pseudoarthrosis of clavicle
cleidocranial dystosis, hypoplastic glenoid3. Infections in the neonate-
septic arthritis shoulder, septicaemia
congenital syphilis
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Obstetric paralysis
Brachial plexus lesions: traction on br plx delivery
0.1- 0.4 % of live births
Causes – increase in birth weight
maternal diabetes
shoulder dystocia
breech delivery
Transient neuropraxia to complete avlusion of nerve root.
child does not move the extremity, posture of limb
DD pseudoparalysis from # clavicle or # humerus
Moro’s reflex -absent in brachial plx injury
-intact in #
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Congenital brachial plexus
palsy: obstetric paralysis
1. Upper plexus - Erb’s Duchenne
C5, C6 +- C7
80% of obstetric paralysis
arm adducted & internally rotated2. Panplexus 19%, flail insensate arm
3. Lower plexus - Klumpke’s, 1%, breech deliv
paralysed handintact shoulder & elbow
Horner’s, generally preganglionic
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Obstetric paralysis management
• >90% spontaneous recovery
• Role of EM and nerve conduction studies notclear
• MRI and CT myelo for pre ganglionic lesions• Prevent contracture of shoulder- passive rom
while stabilising the scapula
• Natural history : upper lesions recover
spontaneously• Return of biceps sign of recovery
• Poor prognosis – if no biceps recovery at 6 mo.
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Obstetric paralysis : surgery
• Criteria for microsurgical interventionevolving
• Postganglionic rupture : resect neuroma
• sural nerve grafting
• Direct repair rarely done
• Preganglionic avulsion: nerve transfer with
intercostal or branches of spinal accessory• Microsurgery in total plexopathy after 6
months
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Neglected case Erb’s : x-ray
• Shoulder : Scapula under developed
• Corocoid markedly enlarged
• Acromion elongated anteriorly and inferiorl
• Head of humerus flattened
glenoid hypoplastic
• Head subluxed posteriorly
• Elbow: flexion contracture, radial headposteriorly dislocated
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Treatment of patients with chronic
plexopathy
• Muscle contracture
• Secondary bony deformity
• progressive glenoid retroversion and posterior
subluxation of shoulder 1. subperiosteal release of subscapularis by 1 year
2. transfer lat dorsi and teres maj to rotator cuff +pec maj release for significant internal rotation
contractures by 2-7 years• Humeral ext rotn osteotomy for severe flattening
of glenoid
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Congenital undescended clavicle:
Sprengle’s shoulder
• Most common congenital anomaly of
shoulder
• Interruption of normal caudal migration of
scapula during foetal development.
• Scapula at the level of C4-5 in the 5th wk
of gestation
• Migrates caudally below T3 by 12 wks
• Failure : high small malrotated scapula
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Sprengle’s shoulder
• Associated anomalies-
scoliosis, hemivertebra,
rib synostosis,
clavicle abn,
renal abnormalties,
hypoplasia of shoulder girdle muscles,omo-vertebral bone 30-50%,
Klippel-Feil syndrome
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Sprengle’s shoulder
• Cosmetic problem
• Little or no functional limitation
• Glenohumeral instability reported in themdue to repeated capsular stretching to
compensate for limited scapl-th motion
A. mild no treatment, excise sup , scapulaB. severe: surgery
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Sprengle’s shoulder surgery
• When indicated intervene before 6 yrs
• Green procedure: release of muscles from
scapula & excision of supraspinous portion
of scapula, ov , bring down & reattach• Reflect trapezius from spine of scapula
• Free rhomboids and levator sacpula
• Remove supraspinous part of scapula• Excise any omovertebral bone
• Displace scapula inferiorly
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Woodward procedue
• Transfer of origin of trapezius to more inferior position . Midline incision
• Origins of trapezius rhomboids freed from
spinous process• Lev scapula, omovertebral bone and superior angle of scapula excised
• Attachment of trapezius at C4 released
• Scapula & attached muscles displaced inferiorly• Reattach aponeurosis of trapezius
• Complication : brach plx lesion
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Congenital pseudoarthrosis of
clavicle
• Rare, unilateral , right side, failure of ossification of pre-cartilaginous bridge of 2ossification centres
• Middle third of clavicle, painless mass• Bilateral in 10-15%
• Present at birth
• May occur with cleidocranial dystosis
• not related to congenital pseudoarthrosis of tibia
• open reduction bone grafting and plating,union easier to obtain
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Glenoid hypoplasia
• Increasingly recognized as a primary condition.
• also secondary to skeletal dysplasias, MPS
• Rim of glenoid develops from 2 ossification
centres by 9-16 yrs
• Glenoid hypoplasia occurs when inferior
apophysis fails to ossify
• Dentate glenoid• Bilateral and asymptomatic
• Multidirectional instability
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Septic arthritis of shoulder in
neonate• Rare,
cause: indwelling cath , sepsis
• remain afebrile
• Delay in diagnosis
• Whole body tech scan for evaluation• Multifocal OM
• Pseudoparalysis of shoulder
• X-ray widening of jt space
• Concomitant OM may be present• Arthrotomy rather than serial aspirations
• Arthroscopic irrigation & debridement
• Delay in D damage to physis
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