James B. Stiehl Werner H. Konermann Rolf G. Haaker Anthony M. DiGioia III 2007 Computer assisted Orthopedic surgery has made significant advances since our first textbook was completed in 2003, not only in refinement of existing methods but in newer ideas such as early robotic applications and validation concepts. The basic platforms from which we work have […]

Jeno Manninger Ulrich Bosch Péter Cserháti Károly Fekete György Kazár † (Eds.) 2007 An atlas Hip fractures constitute one of the most resource consuming diagnoses in health care. With an increasing amount of elderly in the population WHO has prognosticated an almost five fold increase from 1.7 million hip fractures in the year 1990 to 6.3 million in 2050.

Marco Lanzetta · Jean-Michel Dubernard (Editors) 2007 The story of this book is quite simple: after the first few hand transplants, we felt the need to have regular meetings so that our clinical experiences would be beneficially shared and serve as a basis to draw some guidelines for the future. In so doing, we soon realised that a huge amount […]

Felix Bronner, Mary C. Farach-Carson and Antonios G. Mikos (Eds) 2007 The science of bone replacement has greatly advanced in recent decades, but replacing bone with bone tissue rather than with metallic components remains in early development. The current volume, third in the series Topics in Bone Biology, deals with problems inherent in inducing the body cells to accomplish […]

Edited by RILEY J. WILLIAMS III 2007 It is with great pleasure that I present the first edition of Cartilage Repair Strategies. Over the past two decades, interest in the area of cartilage reconstruction has grown rapidly. I hoped to harness this great enthusiasm by inviting experts throughout the field to contribute to this comprehensive text.

R. Luchetti · P. Amadio (Eds.) 2007 Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common hand problem, affecting as much as 5% of the adult population; yet in the large majority of cases, the condition is idiopathic. While surgical treatment often results in improvement, residual loss of function and some persistence of symptoms are common.