Stefano Zaffagnini • Roland Becker Gino M.M.J. Kerkhoffs João Espregueira Mendes C. Niek van Dijk Editors 2014 Dear ESSKA-members, We are gratified to offer you this instructional course book that represents a latest update on the current knowledge on knee surgery, sports traumatology and arthroscopy. The book includes the contents of all the instructional course […]
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Samuel Antuña • Raúl Barco Editors 2014 A Comprehensive Approach to Common Elbow Disorders The book you are about to read has been written to help you understand and treat common elbow problems. We do not expect you to be an expert elbow surgeon when you finish it; however, you will be a knowledgeable orthopedic […]
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Sven-Anders So¨lveborn 2014 A Manual on Acute Conditions of the Locomotor System Emergency Orthopaedics is a practical and comprehensive manual, describing how to diagnose and treat acute orthopaedic problems. The reader is offered assistance in identifying the injury/disorder and the author gives firm and up-to-date advice on the short term and long term aspects of […]
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Leiv M. Hove • Tommy Lindau Per Hølmer Editors 2014 Current Concepts The forearm represents a critical anatomical unit of the upper extremity, permitting the hand to be placed in any position, to either grasp or support an object. The distal radius and the surrounding joints and soft tissues are essential for these most vital […]
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Pieter J. Emans • Lars Peterson Editors 2014 Movement is essential for our health and quality of life. Healthy cartilage is paramount in allowing and maintaining this movement. Cartilage is not only present in articulating joints, but also in the rib-cage, ear, nose, bronchial tubes and intervertebral discs. It is essential for functions as breathing, […]
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Arun B. Mullaji • Gautam M. Shetty 2014 With rapid advancement in technology and materials in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), long-term survival and function of the total knee are now more and more dependent on restoring accurate limb alignment, precise component position and optimum soft-tissue balance. Furthermore, a large number of early revisions in TKA […]
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James M. Ryan • Adriaan P.C.C. Hopperus Buma Charles W. Beadling • Aroop Mozumder David M. Nott Editors 2014 A Practical Guide We are writing this preface in mid-January 2013. Our media are reporting on the latest hostage crisis – on this occasion an unfolding tragedy in an oil and gas facility in eastern Algeria […]
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E. Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán Juan Carlos Rubio-Suárez Editors 2014 Diagnosis and Management Bone fractures are becoming more and more common and complex, and therefore their management is becoming more and more difficult. Generally speaking, bone fractures are produced in high-energy traumatisms, mainly in traffic accidents, so that many of them take place in the setting of […]
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Jack Farr • Andreas H. Gomoll Editors 2014 Practical Clinical Applications Every book has someone who keeps the editors/authors on track, picks up loose ends, proofs, edits, and helps it become a reality. For this book, it was Andi Clifford. Thank you. Many of our techniques were developed over time through patient outcomes: many published […]
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Theofilos Karachalios Editor 2014 Basic Science to Clinical Applications In the 1960s and early 1970s, it was customary to see crippled women and men, with hip and knee joint deformities and serious restriction of movement, tottering very short distances using various walking aids and describing how agonizingly painful their arthritic joints were. In November 1962, […]
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