Morphological and Radiological Study of Ossified Superior Transverse Scapular Ligament as Potential Risk Factor of Suprascapular Nerve Entrapment

Table 1

Frequency of ossifications of the superior transverse scapular ligament in different populations.

Researcher	Country	Ossification (%)	Number of studied specimens (𝑁)
Kajava [11]	Finland	1.5	𝑁=133
Olivier [15]	France	5.0	𝑁=100
Vallois [13, 16]		6.5	𝑁=200
	Italy	6.1	𝑁=152
Albino et al. [12]		3.6	𝑁=500
Natsis et al. [17]	Germany	7.3	𝑁=423
Polguj et al. [14]	Poland	4.72	𝑁=616
Urgüden et al. [19]	Turkey	6.0	𝑁=100
Bayramoglu et al. [18]		12.5	𝑁=32
Edelson [22]	USA	3.7	𝑁=1000
Tubbs et al. [6]		3.7	𝑁=120
Rengachary et al. [4]		4.0	𝑁=211
Dunkelgrun et al. [21]		5.0	𝑁=623
Ticker et al. [5]		5.0	𝑁=79
Gray [10]		6.34	𝑁=1151
Sinkeet et al. [23]	Kenya	3.0	𝑁=138
Wang et al. [25]	China	4.08	𝑁=295
Hrdicka [24]	Egypt	13.6	𝑁=511
Silva et al. [8]	Brazil	30.76	𝑁=221