A Rare and Important Cause of Winging of the Scapula

Witney-Lagen CJ, Newman JB,

Abstract

A 47 year old lady presented to the Orthopaedic out patient clinic following a referral from her General Practitioner. Since 2001 she had suffered from right-sided shoulder pain. In addition she reported a feeling of instability in the shoulder when doing manual activities, especially in over-head work. On questioning she reported occasional hand paraesthesia. This affected all of the fingers and thumb equally, rather than being confined to a particular nerve region or dermatome. There was no history of trauma.