부산대학교 도서관

Rupture of the long head of the biceps tendon is relatively rare. Most of the patients are middle-aged manual laborers, who have a history of trauma. The patients visit a hospital usually with a chief complaint of asthenia, and abnormal or well-developed biceps. Rupture has been diagnosed by clinical findings, xeroradiograms and scapulohumeral X-ray findings. This report presents correlation between the surgical and MRI findings along with some bibliographical consideration. Out patient was a 68 year old male who visited our hospital with a chief complaint about the right brachial tumor and underwent an operation for rupture of the long head of the biceps tendon, a cystic mass filled with retained synovial fluid and the shortened stump of the long head of the biceps tendon were ruvealed by MRI.