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A) Preoperative coronal section of a T1 sequence, fat-saturated right shoulder. Deep surface tear (red arrow) with deep layer retraction above the humeral head (white arrow). B) Postoperative coronal section of a right shoulder in T2 sequence with fat saturation. The repair allowed healing of the tendon on the greater tubercle (red arrow), but ignored the deep layer (white arrow) which remained retracted, resulting in a thin, persistently painful rotator cuff (3 mm, green line). Reproduced from Lädermann et al., with permission.