Latissimus Dorsi Tendon Transfer Augmented by Human Dermal Tissue Allograft for Massive Rotator Cuff Tears: Surgical Technique
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Successful surgical treatment of irreparable massive rotator cuff tears is a major challenge in orthopedic surgery. For symptomatic active patients with rotator cuff lesions without underlying degenerative arthritis, a tendon transfer is a reasonable reconstructive treatment option. Since its description by Gerber in 1988, latissimus dorsi tendon transfer has become an established procedure but has had variable results especially in patients with associated subscapularis tendon tears. The lack of consistent healing of the latissimus dorsi tendon transfer due to the tenuous harvested tendon and recipient tissues may be a key cause of suboptimal clinical results. We describe a latissimus dorsi transfer procedure specifically augmented by an acellular dermal allograft, which serves as a reinforcing onlay on the bursal side of the transferred tendon. At the completion of the reconstruction, the host latissimus tendon is in direct contact with both the native prepared bone on the tuberosity footprint and the surrounding tissues. The goal of this procedure is not only to augment the native latissimus tendon and improve its tensile properties during the healing process, but also to achieve complete superior humeral head coverage with the potential for force couple restoration and increased function of a deficient subscapularis tendon.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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