Acute Calcific Tendinitis and Frozen Shoulder: Their Treatment with ACTH

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Abstract
THE action of adrenocortical hormones on the inflammatory response of tissues to irritating or damaging agents and in particular the rapid regression of localized inflammatory hyperemia, edema and exudation that follows stimulation of the adrenal cortex with ACTH indicated a therapeutic trial of the hormone in certain cases of sterile inflammation in the shoulder.Calcific deposits in the tendons of the rotator cuff of the shoulder are common; in routine chest surveys they have been noted to occur in about 5 per cent§ of the population. The majority of these are apparently innocuous, producing neither pain nor limitation of motion, . . .

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