43 year old Chinese Male with 7 month shoulder pain and LROM, much more severe in the last 2 months, MRI

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There is flagrant bilateral adhesive capsulitis.
I have rarely seen concomitant bilateral adhesive capsulitis—and it seems
quite unusual in a relatively young Male,
I have long perceived a predilection for adhesive capsulitis in our Asian
patient population (mostly in our Japanese patients….which is a far
smaller population than Chinese and Koreans in NYC), and I know that DM is
associated with increased incidence, and sometimes chronic refractory
symptoms.
I was not aware that anyone published on the Asian ethnic
correlation….I’ve attached an article from Brazil, but they don’t break
down the population by country of origin.

Thoughts? Comments?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148712/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4915459/