Over the past 2 decades, there has been a significant trend toward arthroscopic stabilization, with arthroscopic surgery accounting for nearly 90% of procedures from a 2009 national database. 23 , 32 Several studies have previously compared the costs of arthroscopic and open techniques of anterior shoulder stabilization. 1 , 21 , 26 , 30 Min et al 21 found arthroscopic Bankart repair was a more cost-effective method of treating primary shoulder instability than was the Latarjet procedure.
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