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Grating scapula

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The scapula produces a painless but annoying clicking or grating when the arm is moved. Bony, muscular or bursal abnormalities may be responsible, and a lesion such as an osteochondroma can be excised. Otherwise the condition does not require treatment.

Apley, A.G. et al (1993) Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures 7th ed Butterworth-Heinemann

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