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World J Orthop. Oct 18, 2016; 7(10): 670-677
Published online Oct 18, 2016. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v7.i10.670
Outcome of repair of chronic tear of the pectoralis major using corkscrew suture anchors by box suture sliding technique
Deepak Joshi, Jitesh Kumar Jain, Deepak Chaudhary, Utkarsh Singh, Vineet Jain, Ajay Lal
Deepak Joshi, Jitesh Kumar Jain, Deepak Chaudhary, Utkarsh Singh, Sports Injury Centre, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi 110029, India
Vineet Jain, Ajay Lal, Sports Injury Centre, Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi 110029, India
Author contributions: Joshi D and Chaudhary D are the chief surgeon who performed all surgeries; Singh U and Jain V assisted the surgery and helped in data collection; Jain JK drafted the manuscript; Lal A did the statistical work.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the sports injury centre, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that they have no financial relationsip to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data available.
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Correspondence to: Jitesh Kumar Jain, MS, Sports Injury Centre, Safdarjung Hospital, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India. dr.jiteshajmera@yahoo.com
Telephone: +91-96-43966494
Received: March 23, 2016
Peer-review started: March 24, 2016
First decision: May 16, 2016
Revised: June 18, 2016
Accepted: July 29, 2016
Article in press: August 1, 2016
Published online: October 18, 2016
Core Tip

Core tip: We are presenting the results of repair of rare chronic tears of pectoralis major. This is one of the longest series of repair of chronic pectoralis major tears by corkscrew suture anchors with midterm follow-up. In chronic tears hardly any repairable length of the tendon is available and what available is largely musculotendinous unit. We used a new technique to prevent cutting through of sutures from retracted musculotendinous unit in chronic tears. We have obtained excellent results with this technique.