Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Surgery - Orthopedic

This agile yet comprehensive book equips the reader with all necessary knowledge to safely perform one-stage revision arthroplasty, a surgical technique that is gaining in popularity among orthopaedic surgeons and patients.

The opening part identifies the causes and presents the diagnostic set-up of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), as well as the pre-operative planning and operation room set-up.  The authors further guide the reader through the surgical steps for knee-, hip-, and shoulder revision surgery devoting particular attention to the functional outcomes which are...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to revision total knee arthroplasty, a complex surgical procedure with increasing numbers due to the aging world's population.

Covering both septic and aseptic prosthetic failure, it presents an updated overview of available surgical techniques – from one or two-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection to robot-assisted total joint arthroplasty. Moreover, the authors explore the current role and future potentialities of artificial intelligence.

This volume offers the reader state-of-the-art information aiming to illuminate...

This is the first single reference of classifications and scores of the shoulder. It gives a clearly structured, well-defined compendium of classifications and scores of the shoulder for use in everyday clinical life to improve and simplify the communication between physicians and physiotherapists. It is the first single reference of classifications and scores of the shoulder. The book is for orthopedic and trauma surgeons, radiologists, and physiotherapists.

In 2%-7% of all bone fractures, union is delayed or fails. Nonunions of the bones represent a challenge for orthopedic surgeons and can have a severe psychological impact on these patients. Moreover, the social cost of managing these lesions, often requiring multiple procedures, may be very high, and complications related to improper treatment are not rare. This text is based on the development over many years of the devices and operative techniques of monofocal, bifocal, and multifocal compression-distraction osteosynthesis, in cooperation with the CITO Institute of Moscow and the LNIITO...

Die vordere Kreuzbandlasion gehort zu den haufigsten (Sport-) Verletzungen. Mit ca. 28.000 Operationen im Jahr steht sie mit an der Spitze der operativen Eingriffe am Knie. Dieses Buch befasst sich ausschliesslich mit dieser Thematik und erlautert in komplexer und strukturierter Form die anatomischen, physiologischen, pathophysiologischen und biomechanischen Grundlagen des gesunden und verletzten vorderen Kreuzbands. Der Weg zur Diagnose sowie die therapeutischen Moglichkeiten sowohl konservativ als auch operativ werden, erganzt durch instruktive Abbildungen, dargestellt.

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L'intervento di artroprotesi d'anca, che si esegue ormai dagli anni '60, vive una grande evoluzione soprattutto dopo l'introduzione di nuovi disegni protesici e la sperimentazione di nuovi materiali. Un costante aggiornamento si rende quindi necessario. Quello previsto in questo corso, grazie al contributo di illustri collaboratori, esamina in dettaglio i principali aspetti, anche quelli piu innovativi, relativi alla sostituzione protesica dell'anca. Ampio spazio e stato dedicato ai risultati di grandi casistiche, relative sia a modelli protesici di tipo tradizionale che ai modelli piu...

The scope and importance of hip fractures is almost incomprehensible. With a world wide incidence of close to 2 million cases per year, these fractures pose a daunting challenge to our ability to affect and treat this epidemic.

Basics for operative treatment of proximal and distal femur fractures: Clear surgical indication, short planning and preparation

In comprehensive form the book presents the usage of a meanwhile well installed implant (DMS) for osteosynthesis technique in the peritrochanteric region. The "double dynamic" stabilization (sliding tongue principle and angle adapted...