TY - JOUR AU - Protais, Marie AU - Laurent-Perrot, Maxime AU - Artuso, Mickaël AU - Moody, M. Christian AU - Sautet, Alain AU - Soubeyrand, Marc PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/05 TI - Use of Gracile and semi-tendinosus tendons (GRAST) for the reconstruction of irreparable rotator cuff tears JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders SP - 331 VL - 22 IS - 1 AB - Irreparable rotator cuff tears are common and difficult to treat. Techniques for “filling the loss of substance” require fixation to the rotator cuff stump (tendon augmentation) or to the glenoid (superior capsular reconstruction), which are complicated by the narrow working zone of the subacromial space. The main objective of this study was to determine whether a braided graft of gracilis (GR) and semitendinosus (ST) could fill a loss of tendon substance from an irreparable rupture of the supra- and infraspinatus, by fixing the graft to the greater tuberosity and the spine of the scapula. SN - 1471-2474 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04197-6 DO - 10.1186/s12891-021-04197-6 ID - Protais2021 ER -