inside-out technique

inside-out technique

Orthopedics A method in shoulder surgery in which the arthroscope in the posterior access portal localizes the position of the anterior portal and a rod passed though the arthroscopic cannula to exit the anterior shoulder; a cannula is then passed retrograde over the rod and a portal established. See Outside-in technique.

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