[Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty - Current Concepts].

Due to first promising long term outcome data, reverse shoulder arthroplasty experienced an immense increase of usage during the past decade. Moreover, the initial Grammont concept has constantly been refined and adapted to current scientific findings. Therefore, clinical and radiological problems like scapular notching and postoperative instability were constantly addressed but do still remain an area of concern.This article summarises current concepts in reverse shoulder arthroplasty and gives an overview of actual indications like cuff tear arthropathy, severe osteoarthritis, proximal humerus fractures, tumours, fracture sequelae as well as revision surgery and their corresponding clinical and radiological results.