Background:

shoulder instability is a common desease, affecting mainly young patients, before surgery measures of anterior glenoid bone loss is crucial to define surgical treatment modality in each patient.

Objetive:

this review aims to provide a method to measure anterior glenoid bone loss in patients suffering from unstable shoulders.

Methods:

a four month research was conducted from May 1st 2018 to August 31th 2018. Our review included 352 articles published in PubMed, Hinari, SciELO and Medline databases by using EndNote. The words used were glenoid bone loss, Bankart lesions, shoulder instability, unstable shoulder. Forty six selected citations, all them within the last five years, were used to write the present paper.

Results:

incidence and importance of measure methods of anterior glenoid bone loss were mentioned, among them: diameter based and surface area methods, beside comparative one. In regards to the first two, advantages and disadvantages were pointed out. The technique was described by steps to measure bone defect.

Conclusions:

the proposed measure methods can be used in our health institutions and are useful to decide surgical plan.

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