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Elbow Arthroscopy: Indications, Benefits and Risks

Dr. Papandrea explains indications, benefits & risks with elbow arthroscopy. Rick Papandrea, MD: Like any joint, the elbow can be treated arthroscopically. That is where the surgeon enters a joint with a small camera and can affect or carry out surgical treatments with very small incisions. The elbow has specific indications for arthroscopy that can be simple things such as small loose arteries or loose pieces of bone or cartilage that can be cleaned out with the help of the arthroscope. They can be common conditions like tennis elbow or they can be more complicated such as arthritis that involves a whole joint or even some fractures that can be treated arthroscopically. The benefits of arthroscopic surgery of the elbow are that again like other joints the incisions and the procedure are smaller and typically recovery is faster. The elbow does have some areas that are very hard to get to with an open or traditional approach and those areas can be gotten to even easier with the arthroscopic approach and therefore some of the indications for arthroscopy are those difficult to reach areas and where the benefits then are just faster recovery and less surgery and may be even the ability to carry out some things that are very difficult or maybe even impossible to carryout open. There are some risks associated with elbow arthroscopy, like any joint. There are risks like infection or stiffness or nerve injury, but the elbow is particularly difficult to get to without being close to nerves and so the surgeon has to be very aware of this and comfortable with this. There is an increased risk of nerve injury with elbow arthroscopy, but studies do show that if the surgeon is experienced that risk is very small and very mitigated or controlled. The risk of stiffness is probably decreased with elbow arthroscopy because of its less invasive, or last surgery was carried out to the adjacent or associated or near tissues and so therefore somethings like __________are probably decreased after elbow arthroscopy. Various other things like nerve injury may be increased especially with an inexperienced surgeon. Learn more about Dr. Papandrea: http://orthodoc.aaos.org/rpapandrea/