Sous la coordination de Emmanuel Favreul Didier Mainard 2013 Volume 2 : Membre supérieur et pied Il faut d’abord souligner que l’homme est l’animal qui évalue alors qu’en lui-même il échappe à toute tentative d’évaluation. Protagonras, un interlocuteur de Socrate cinq siècles avant J.-C., l’exprimait en disant : « l’homme est la mesure de toutes choses ». C’est […]
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Dolfi Herscovici, Jr. Editor 2016 According to the National Center for Health Statistics , in 1900 the life expectancy in the United States approached 47 years. Of the ten most common causes leading to death in 1900, six were due to infectious diseases with strokes, accidents, cancer, and senility contributing to the final four reasons that someone died. By […]
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João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco Alexander R. Vaccaro Edward C. Benzel H. Michael Mayer Editors 2016 After my graduation in neurosurgery, I had the unexpected privilege to immerse myself in 4 years of clinical and research fellowships, working with or simply observing the clinical and surgical techniques of several world-renowned experts in treating spinal diseases. Being far from my native […]
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Edited by Anil Arora Thameem Saif 2015 OrthoPedics Quick Review (OPQR) is the Best Selling book of Orthopedics for PG preparation. OPQR rests its fundamental principle on the idea of providing the students with a book they can easily read and understand only within FIVE Days, and at the same time memorize and retain with the help […]
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Matthew B. Werd • E. Leslie Knight Paul R. Langer Editors 2017 The first edition of Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine filled a much-needed void as the original comprehensive, evidence-based resource on athletic footwear and orthoses for the entire sports medicine team. The importance of filling this void has been reflected by the overwhelming success in […]
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Walter H. Johnson James H. Moll 2014 The Essential Pocket Guide Since the first printing of this text 50 years ago, pediatric cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, and magnetic resonance imaging have developed and less emphasis has been placed on the more traditional methods of evaluating a cardiac patient. Most practitioners, however, do not have access to these refined diagnostic techniques […]
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CHIEF EDITOR Mohit Bhandari 2012 Evidence-based orthopedics, in principle, is simple. It aims to empower health care providers and patients with valid and reliable information on which to base important decisions about a therapy, a prognosis, or even a diagnostic test. But there is a fundamental requisite to finding the best evidence—finding the time to do it!
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Edited by Michael J. Yaszemski Debra J. Trantolo Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski Vasif Hasirci David E. Altobelli Donald L. Wise 2004 This reference text Biomaterials in Orthopedics contains cutting-edge presentations by leading authorities dealing with the critical issues surrounding materials for bone repair and reconstruction. The chapters cover the use of a wide range of biomaterials from bioabsorbables to […]
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Jürgen Krämer Joachim Grifka 2005 Die Berufung des neuen Mitautors Prof. Grifka auf den Lehrstuhl für Orthopädie an der Universität Regensburg schuf beste Voraussetzungen für eine gemeinsame Weitergestaltung dieses Kurzlehrbuchs. Lehrstuhl bedeutet ständige Auseinandersetzung mit den Lehr- und Prüfungsinhalten der Medizinerausbildung im zweiten Studienabschnitt.
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Peter Thümler, Raimund Forst, Günther Zeiler (Hrsg.) 2005 Die ständig steigenden Zahlen von Primärimplantationen im Bereich des Hüftgelenks (etwa 130.000 in Deutschland) führen konsequenterweise zu einem deutlichen Anstieg der Revisionseingriffe. Ausgedehnte Knochendefekte – insbesondere bei zementierten gelockerten Endoprothesen des Hüftgelenks – sind für den Operateur eine große Herausforderung. Trotz großen Aufwands der präoperativen Diagnostik und Planung bestehen häufig intraoperative Unwägbarkeiten.
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