POSTTRAUMATIC SHOULDER INSTABILITY IN CHILDREN: CLINICAL PRESENTATION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

The article presents an analysis of the treatment of 15 patients with posttraumatic shoulder instability aged 11-17 years, as a result of primary traumatic dislocation and chronic instability. We identified the following causes of chronic shoulder instability: Bankart injury, SLAP-injury; Hill-Sachs defect; fracture of the glenoid, type 3 humeral head-glenoid relation, and retroversion of the humeral head, as well as defects in the treatment of primary shoulder dislocation. Surgical treatment is performed in 7 patients with chronic instability (7 joints). Unsatisfactory result was detected in 1 patient (1 joints), which is caused by a type 3 humeral head-glenoid relation.