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Shakespeare found in Cleopatra the eternal woman, and wrote the words mat all men would like to utter:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies
Perhaps even Cleopatra's rotator cuffs were exceptional. As a rule, however, rotator cuffs tear wim an incidence proportional to age and. if repaired, the outcome is not so good in women.
An MR study would confirm what earlier studies using high definition ultrasound have shown, that 28% of asymptomatic volunteers aged 60 years or over have rotator cuff tears.
F. Lam and D. Mak (J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2004; 13:479482) present the results of open...