The treatment of anterior recurrent dislocation of the shoulder: the Bankart-Delitala procedure.

The authors report the results of 110 shoulder capsulorrhaphies performed according to the Bankart-Delitala technique. After a mean period of 104 months +/- 63 the clinical results, evaluated on the basis of the Rowe method were excellent-good in 94.6% of cases, and fair-poor in 5.4%. In 83.6% of cases there was no deficit in motility of the shoulder submitted to surgery, in 16.4%, the shoulder presented deficit in extrarotation (exceeding 15 degrees in only 1 case, equal to 0.9%).