The May 5, 2021 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery includes an article on: Assessing the Value to the Patient of New Technologies in Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty. The authors include our own, Drs. Schiffman, Prabhakar, Hsu and Matsen. The authors take a look at publications regarding anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) have consistently reported that they provide significant improvement for patients with glenohumeral arthritis. New TSA technologies that have been introduced with the goal of further improving these outcomes include preoperative computed tomography (CT) scans, 3-dimensional preoperative planning, patient-specific instrumentation, stemless and short-stemmed humeral components, as well as metal-backed, hybrid, and augmented glenoid components. To read the full article click here.
https://jbjs.org/reader.php?id=208684&rsuite_id=2755449&native=1&source=The_Journal_of_Bone_and_Joint_Surgery/103/9/761/fulltext&topics=sh#info