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"Mechanism"
"Associations"
"Patients usually report pain, burning or tearing sensation and might show an asymmetry or bruise of the posterior axillary fold or lump at the latissimus dorsi muscle belly. Pain increases with internal rotation and resisted shoulder extension 2,3. Baseball pitchers might complain of accuracy and a loss of pitching velocity."
"Full-thickness tears benefit from surgical management, which includes retrieving and mobilisation of the tendon stump and refixation to the humeral footprint from a combined anterior and posterior approach or single posterior approach. Due to the proximity to the radial, axillary and posterior brachial cutaneous nerves and the posterior circumflex humeral artery special care needs to be taken in respect of those structures 1,5."
"There is still no accepted general treatment algorithm for which patients should be treated conservatively and which should undergo surgery."