Current Practice in Hand Surgery

Description:
Offering?authoritative advice, technical tips, and personal approaches?from renowned experts in hand surgery worldwide,?Current Practice in Hand Surgery?is a?uniquely global, practical resource?to help guide clinical practice. In print and on video,?key opinion leaders?in the field cover everything from infection, compartment syndrome, and joint stiffness to hand fractures and dislocation to reconstruction and replantation of hands and digits?including particularly challenging disorders and future research directions.

Features:

• Contains the collective opinions and recommendations from teams of?active, leading experts and investigators?in hand surgery worldwide, resulting in an unmatched volume of today?s wisdom in this complex field

• Shares?individual authors? unique surgical techniques and outcomes?both in print and on video

• Covers?key topics?such as arthroscopic wrist surgery, primary flexor tendon repair, nerve repair and reconstruction, flap coverage for the hand and upper extremity, management of the mutilated hand, congenital hand disorders, connective tissue diseases, tumors of the hand and upper extremity, neuropathic pain, improving hand function after cerebral palsy, stroke, or brain damage, and more

• Provides?extensive visual guidance?through clinical and operative photos, radiographs, and illustrations

• Suitable for all levels of readership, the text includes a variety of rich content types, from?Boxes?summarizing key points, to?In-Depth Advice?based on career-long experience, to?In-Depth Analysis?providing cutting-edge insights, making it a go-to resource for clinicians of any level

• An digital version is included with purchase.?The digital allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Table Of Contents:

PART I General Hand Surgery Approaches

1. Modern Clinical Settings and Approaches

2. Infection, Compartment Syndrome, and Joint Stiffness

PART II Fractures and Dislocations

3. Hand Fractures and Dislocations

4. Late Problems after Bone and Joint Trauma

5. Distal Radius Fractures

6. Fractures of the Elbow and Forearm

PART III Wrist and Distal Radioulnar Joint

7. Evolution and Current Methods of Arthroscopic Wrist Surgery

8. Acute Scaphoid Fractures

9. Scaphoid Nonunion or Malunion and Wrist Arthritis: Unsolved Problems

10. Carpal Instability: Current Techniques

11. Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability

12. Treatment of Kienb?ck Disease: A Major Unsolved Problem

13. Carpal Dislocations

14. Other Carpal Fractures and Carpal Disorders

PART IV Tendons and Nerves

15. Primary Flexor Tendon Repair

16. Secondary Flexor Tendon Surgery

17. Extensor Tendon Repair and Reconstruction

18. Entrapment Neuropathies of the Upper Extremity: Current Practice

19. Nerve Repair and Reconstruction: Updated Methods

20. Traumatic Adult Pan-Brachial Plexus Injuries: Current Methods and Variations

21. Tendon Transfers After Nerve Injuries to the Arm and Forearm

PART V Soft-Tissue Coverage and Microsurgery

22. Soft-Tissue Cover of the Thumb and Fingers

23. Flap Coverage for the Hand and Upper Extremity

24. Replantation of Digits and Hands: Current Indications and Dealing with Difficult Patients

25. Reconstruction of the Hand and Digits

26. Management of a Mutilated Hand

PART VI Other Difficult Disorders

27. Dupuytren Disease

28. Trapeziometacarpal Osteoarthritis: Current Approaches and Unsolved Problems

29. Congenital Hand Disorders: Differences in Strategies and Treatment

30. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Tendinopathies, and Other Connective Tissue Diseases

31. Chronic Vascular Disorders of the Hand

32. Enhancing Hand Control in Tetraplegia

33. Improving Hand Function after Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, or Brain Damage

34. Tumors of the Hand and Upper Extremity

35. Neuropathic Pain of the Upper Extremity

36. Topics With Major Uncertainties, Including Birth Palsy and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome