The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by shoulder dislocation:
Circulatory system (I00-I99)
- Thrombosis (vascular disease in which a blood clot (thrombus) forms in a vein) of the axillary vein (large vein in the armpit (axilla) area)
Nervous system (G00-G99)
- Damage to the axillary plexus
Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).
- Omarthrosis (arthritis of the shoulder joint)
Injuries, poisonings, and other consequences of external causes (S00-T98).
- Tear of soft tissue structures in the shoulder joint such as the labrum (Bankart lesion), capsule, rotator cuff (group of four muscles whose tendons, together with the ligamentum coracohumerale, form a coarse tendon cap that encompasses the shoulder joint; not infrequently affects elderly patients)
- Vascular injuries, unspecified
- Bony injuries in the shoulder region such as Hill-Sachs lesion (impression at the humeral head/upper arm head).
- Nerve injuries such as axillary nerve injury (“axillary nerve”).
- Subcapital humerus fracture (humeral neck fracture; not infrequently affects elderly patients).
