Background: Shoulder athroscopy is a difficult procedure and have been appling in Hue Central Hospital in recent years. There was not any general research for this yet.
Objective: To research symptoms and evaluate the result of shoulder arthroscopy.
Subject and methods: Following research 38 patients who underwent shoulder arthroscopy in Hue Central Hospital from 6/2016 to 3/2019, assess after 6 months.
Results: Instability shoulder was 61.5%, rotator cuff tear was 30.8% and impingement was 7.7%. Mean age was 43.8 and male was higher than female (p<0.05). Pain symtom is 100% in rotator cuff disease and 30.4% in instability, MRI found out injury 30.4 and 100% in instability and rotator cuff group, respectively. Anterior labral tear was 95.7% in instability group and supraspinatus tendon tear was 91.7% in rotator cuff tear group. Good and excelent result were 85% and 91.3% after 6 month in instability and rotator cuff group, respectively.
Conclusion: Result of shoulder arthroscopy was good in Hue Central hospital.
Key words: arthroscopy, instability, rotator cuff tear