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.
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 eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook 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
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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 Kienboeck 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
