Paralabral Cyst

This is a free supplement to The Resident’s Manual of Ultrasound-Guided Procedures.

Diagnostic examinations of the shoulder are very important. Here we caught a hypoechoic mass just medial to the glenohumeral joint of the right shoulder.

Subsequent MRI confirmed a paralabral cyst.

This video is from a low-quality handheld ultrasound machine.

I hoped using a curvilinear probe would help achieve better image quality, but it’s about the same. This video is from the same patient on a different low-quality handheld ultrasound machine.