Researchers studied 107 consecutive patients who underwent arthroscopically assisted mini-open rotator cuff repair, with 95 patients finishing a maximum postoperative follow-up of 11 years.
There was a 33 percent failure rate among the participating patients, and 74 percent of the failures occurred atraumatically in the first three months after surgery. Eleven percent of the remaining failures occurred between the third and sixth month after the repair.
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