HUMERAL HEAD OSTEONECROSIS AFTER EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK-WAVE TREATMENT FOR ROTATOR CUFF TENDINOPATHY.

The article presents case reports of a forty-nine-year-old woman who underwent serial magnetic resonance imaging examinations of the left shoulder over a period of ten months to evaluate pain, which had begun after she pulled a heavy object. The magnetic resonance of the patient revealed shoulder impingement with a partial tear of the supraspinatus tendon on the humeral side, subacromial and subdeltoid bursitis, and biceps tenosynovitis. Three months after the extracorporeal shock-wave treatment, the follow-up magnetic resonance examination revealed a newly developed area of osteonecrosis in the left humeral head.