Abstract
In practice, we have noticed that this capsular tear pattern may be related to the bursal-sided partial rotator cuff tear. And also, it has also been described for the first time in the literature. This study was performed retrospectively from the surgical and clinical images of patients in the archive after statistical power analysis. To avoid bias, patients’ operation dates were taken into consideration while selecting the patients to be included in the study. All of the patients had a history of failed conservative treatment. In this study, we only described an arthroscopic finding. Careful physical examination and detailed imaging are helpful to further distinguish the partial-thickness rotator cuff tears and other lesion, we agree with this idea. 1
We agree with this idea, intra-articular pathologies can often accompany partial tears. 2 The distribution of patients in both groups was homogenous. Only biceps degeneration was not excluded as intra-articular pathology. Prospective studies on this subject can be studied with more homogeneous patient groups.
We accept the spelling errors. It should have been 0.009 in the text. However, the incorrect value is also less than 0.05. On the other hand, we want to explain basically in Figure 4 that the tear tissue on the bursal face progresses and creates pressure in the capsule at the cable level. We think that the reverse flap capsule rupture occurred before the full-thickness rupture. In Figure 4(a), we just show the increased pressure on the cable forming the reverse flap capsule tear.
