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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3099</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.12227</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Anatomy of of Suprascapular Notch among North Indian Dry Scapulae: A Morphological Evaluation&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Saha</surname><given-names>Susmita</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Garg</surname><given-names>Shilpi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kaur</surname><given-names>Kirandeep</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Aneja</surname><given-names>Prachi Saffar</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>24</day><month>11</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>132</fpage><lpage>138</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: The suprascapular notch (SSN) is a depression located in the lateral portion of the upper border of the scapula encroached by the superior transverse scapular ligament. It may be completely or partially ossified to transform the notch into a foramen which acts as a gateway for the passage of the suprascapular nerve. Methods: Two hundred __ampersandsignamp; ninety adult dry scapulae (132 right __ampersandsignamp; 158 left) from the osteology museum of the Department of Anatomy, belonging to North Indian population of unknown sex were obtained for the variable morphologic pattern of SSN by subjective evaluation according to Rengachary__ampersandsignrsquo;s classification. We have also examined the morphological variant of the ossified superior transverse suprascapular ligament (STSL). Results: We have concluded six different morphological variations of SSN. Among them, the Type III SSN had the highest incidence of 41.7%. Morphological variability was noted for the ossified STSL: fan-shaped __ampersandsignamp; band like; morphometric analysis was also performed for the completely ossified STSL. The incidence of different types of ossified STSL was 57.5% (fan-shaped); 42.2% (band-like) category respectively __ampersandsignamp; the mean length, width, thickness of the STSL were 7.49 mm; 3.43 mm __ampersandsignamp; 2.18 mm respectively. The mean length __ampersandsignamp; width of complete suprascapular foramen were 7.36 mm and 4.39 mm respectively. Conclusions: SSN shows highly variable morphological pictures, so the clinicians are desirable to be well versed with the diverse appearance of such anatomic variants of SSN on dry bones so that they can interpret its morphology on radiographs and MRI scans. This evaluation may be of great help for academicians and orthopaedic surgeons for the diagnosis __ampersandsignamp; treatment modalities of suprascapular nerve entrapment syndrome&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Scapula</kwd><kwd> Suprascapular notch</kwd><kwd> Morphology</kwd><kwd> Ossified suprascapular ligament</kwd><kwd> Suprascapular nerve</kwd><kwd> Entrapment syndrome</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
