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Many patients affected by shoulder pain refer to an orthopaedic specialist suspecting a rotator cuff abnormality; most of them actually suffer other musculoskeletal disorders which may cause shoulder pain (Table 1), but in some cases extra-orthopaedic pathologies may clinically cause shoulder pain indeed. Orthopaedic specialists should always remember extra-orthopaedic etiopathogenesis of shoulder pain, in order to include important systemic diseases into a complete differential diagnosis approach.
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Rocco, A., Fattorini, F., Gumina, S. (2017). Differential Diagnosis. In: Gumina, S. (eds) Rotator Cuff Tear. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33355-7_22
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