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Letter
Ultrasonographic study of painful shoulder
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Painful shoulder is a very common condition in clinical rheumatology. However, knowledge of the lesions responsible for shoulder pain in most patients has been limited to clinical examination and plain radiography in clinical practice. High frequency ultrasonography is an accurate,1–4 non-invasive, and cheap imaging technique available in clinical rheumatology for evaluating patients with painful shoulder. However, dependence on the skill of the operator has been considered to be the main disadvantage of ultrasound. Diagnostic results are affected by the quality of the equipment, …
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E Naredo and A Iagnocco contributed equally to the study.