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GREEN'S OPERATIVE HAND SURGERY E-DITION
Green's Operative Hand Surgery e-dition
Text with Continually Updated Online Reference, 2-Volume Set
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Fifth Edition

By
David Green, MD, Hand Center of San Antonio Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Robert Hotchkiss, MD, Associate Attending, Chief of Hand Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery; Director, Alberto Vilar Center for Research of the Hand and Upper Extremity, New York, NY
William Pederson, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Scott Wolfe, MD, Chief of Hand Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Description
The 5th Edition of the world's most comprehensive operative hand surgery reference pairs the tradition of print with the advances of technology in a continuously updated multimedia (E)dition. A new team of international contributors, carefully selected for their particular expertise and ability to offer broad perspectives in a given subject area, describes a complete range of open and arthroscopic techniques. They discuss their preferred surgical methods patient selection pre-operative evaluation decision making expected outcomes and special instrumentation. A companion CD-ROM enables readers to link directly from bibliographical citations to corresponding MEDLINE abstracts and other sources.

Audience
Hand Surgeons, Orthopedists, Plastic Surgeons

Contents


Part I


1. General Principles

2. Anesthesia



Part II HAND


3. Acute Infections of the Hand

4. Chronic Infections

5. Dupuytren's Contracture

6. Extensor Tendon Injury

7. Flexor Tendon Injury

Acute Injuries
Flexor Tendon Reconstruction

8. Fractures of the Metacarpals and Phalanges

9. Dislocations and Ligamentous Injuries of the Digit

10. Nails and Nail Bed

11. The Stiff Finger

12. Thumb Basal Joint Arthritis



Part III WRIST


13. Arthrodesis (Partial and Complete)

14. Carpal Instability

15. Distal Radioulnar Joint

16. Distal Radius Fractures

17. Fractures of the Carpal Bones

18. Wrist Arthroscopy: Anatomy and Diagnosis

19. Wrist Arthroscopy: Operative Procedure



Part IV ELBOW AND FOREARM




Trauma and Fractures


20. Distal Humerus Fractures

21. Radial Head Fractures

22. Fractures of the Proximal Ulna

23. Acute Dislocations and Complex Acute Instability

24. Recurrent Instability of the Elbow



Other Disorders


25. The Stiff Elbow

26. Arthroscopy and the Thrower's Elbow

27. Arthroplasty



Part V NERVE


28. Compressive Neuropathies

29. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

30. Repairs and Grafting

31. Radial Nerve Palsy

32. Median Nerve Palsy

33. Ulnar Nerve Palsy

34. Cerebral Palsy

35. Strokes and Brain Injury

36. Tetraplegia

37. Pediatric Brachial Plexus Palsy

38. Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury



Part VI CONGENITAL DISORDERS


39. Embryology of the Upper Extremity

40. Deformities of the Hand and Fingers

41. Deformities of the Thumb

42. Deformities of the Wrist and Forearm

43. The Clapsed Thumb



Part VII BONE AND SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION


44. Principles of Microvascular Surgery

45. Replantation

46. The Mangled Upper Extremity

47. Skin Grafts and Flaps

48. Free Skin and Composite Flaps

49. Free Functioning Muscle Flaps

50. Vascularized Bone Grafts

51. Vascularized Joint Transfers

52. Toe to Hand Transfer

53. Thumb Reconstruction

54. Distraction Lengthening in the Hand and Upper Extremity



Part VIII OTHER DISORDERS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY


55. Amputation

56. Compartment Syndrome

57. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

58. Factitious Disorders

59. Rheumatoid Arthritis

60. Tenosynovitis

61. Thermal and Chemical Injury

62. Skin Tumors

63. Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone

64. Vascular Disorders


Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 0 pages, publication date: MAR-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06674-0
ISBN-10: 0-443-06674-4
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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