Surgical site soft tissue thickness as a predictor of complications following arthroplasty

Table 3 Soft-tissue thickness and complications in shoulder arthroplasty

Ref.	Type of Study	Approach	Soft-tissue thickness measurement	Inter-rater and inter-observer reliabilities	Outcomes studied	Results
Wu et al[48] (2023)	Retrospective chart review	Reverse shoulder arthroplasties	Distance from the center of the humeral head to the skin. Ratio of the deltoid radius to the humeral head radius. Deltoid size. Subcutaneous tissue size	NR	Length of stay. Operative time. Infection	Greater shoulder soft-tissue thickness is a strong predictor of length of stay, operative time, and postoperative infection in primary reverse shoulder arthroplasties patients

NR: Not reported.