Thirty-one patients who were unable to abduct the involved arm after reduction of a primary anterior dislocation of the glenohumeral joint were found to have a ruptured rotator cuff. All of the patients were more than thirty-five years old. Twenty-nine of them were initially presumed to have had an injury to
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