The Popeye sign is an as often as possible announced discovering following long top of the biceps (LHB) medical procedure and might be more regularly recognized by specialists than by patients. This examination explores understanding among patients and specialists in regards to the presence of a Popeye sign after LHB medical procedure.

This interobserver study examines arrangement among patients and counseling doctors with respect to appraisal of a Popeye sign in patients following LHB medical procedure. Moreover, this was contrasted and appraisals by non–counseling doctors (spectators) utilizing advanced photos of the worked arm, taken both preoperatively and postoperatively. Information about sex, age, and weight list (BMI) were gathered to explore their job in specialist’s revealing of a Popeye sign. Patient’s disappointment with a Popeye sign in the worked arm was assessed too.

97 patients (mean age 61 ± 6.0 years, 62% male) went through LHB medical procedure. A Popeye sign was accounted for by 2 patients (2%) rather than 32 cases (40%) by counseling doctors, of which just 1 case was in arrangement.

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