Revision guided suture-button bone block stabilization of the shoulder in the presence of significant retained glenoid metalwork.

However, with an increasing trend to undertake bone block procedures as a primary as well as a revision operation, it is likely that there will be an increase in the number of failed stabilizations with significant retained glenoid metalwork. 8 , 21 The limitations of this study are that it is a retrospective analysis, although we attempted to minimize any recall bias by using prospectively collected data.

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The presence of retained metalwork, in the form of either metal suture anchors or broken screw shafts, or large bone voids, left as the result of biocomposite implants, may be significant.

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