![]() Metal anchors had promising results along with complication of glenohumoral chondral damage secondary to exposed implant, implant migration, implant breakage, etc. With advent of time, there developed metal anchors, biodegradable anchors, bioinert anchors, etc. It has enhanced enormous possibilities in the treatment of rotator cuff tear and shoulder instability. Interferential screws and anchors have played a major role in fixation of soft tissue to bony tunnel. ![]() ![]() Following removal of both the PEEK anchors, local symptoms subsided with improvement in patients shoulder function. Surprisingly, surrounding muscles were healthy, red in color, and contracting to stimulation. Other than pus cells in smear, discharge was negative to routine culture, grams stain, and cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test for tuberculosis. Later, at 3 months, the patient had serous discharge from surgical site, on which exploration revealed pale yellow material vicinity to PEEK anchor. Three weeks following surgery, the patient had pain and rise in temperature over shoulder with raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein which subsided in 7 days with empirical antibiotics. Surgical wound healing was uneventful and suture was removed on 14th day following surgery. Considering the degree of cuff tear, cuff was repaired with mini open method using two metallic suture anchor and two PEEK knotless bioraptor foot print suture anchor. Magnetic resonance imaging depicted a massive cuff tear with retraction of cuff. ![]() A 58-year-old male patient presented to us with signs of rotator cuff tear following injury to his shoulder. ![]()
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