Orthopedic Practice

D M Spengler MD
Chairman, Department of Orthopaedics, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA
Philip Yeoman MB BChir MA FRCS MD
Formerly Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Bath Clinic, Bath, UK

This book offers a relevant and practical resource, focusing on the more difficult musculoskeletal disorders. The contributors, of international standing in their particular field, provide a reasoned account of their own experiences. They cover controversial topics in everyday orthopaedic surgery, reflecting actual practice. Readers will identify a pattern of working which suits their own approach but which, at the same time, will provide a firm foundation for future development.

Surgeons who have embarked on higher specialist training in orthopaedic surgery require a balanced understanding of the causes, assessment and management of clinical problems. This book offers a relevant and practical resource, focusing on the more difficult musculoskeletal disorders. The contributors, of international standing in their particular field, provide a reasoned account of their own experiences. They cover controversial topics in everyday orthopaedic surgery, reflecting actual practice. Readers will identify a pattern of working which suits their own approach but which, at the same time, will provide a firm foundation for future development. Detailed operative technique has been deliberately excluded since it can be found elsewhere. However, selected references are provided for further reading and discussion.

Contents: CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface; Problem solving in orthopaedics; Club foot; The surgical treatment of congenital displacement of the hip joint; Orthopaedic management in spina bifida; Perthes' disease; Slipped upper femoral epiphysis; Spinal deformities; Lengthening of limbs by the Ilizarov method; The multiple injured patient with musculosketal injuries; Traumatic shock and the metabolic response to injury; Reconstructive orthopaedic surgery: skin cover following injury to a limb; Arthroscopy of the knee; Flexor tendon surgery; Musculoskeletal trauma: nerve; External skeletal fixation for the treatment of fractures; Brachial plexus injuries; Rotator cuff injury; Osteoarthritis of the hip; Management of unicompartmental arthritis of the knee; Mechanical and degenerative disorders of the lumbar spine; Surgical management of the cervical spine in rheumatoid arthritis; Surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis of the shoulder; Rheumatoid arthritis of the wrist and hand; Surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis of the knee; Rheumatoid arthritis of the ankle and foot; Correction of posture in ankylosing spondylitis; Musculoskeletal sepsis: current concepts in treatment; Osteomalacia and osteoporosis; Physics and technology of bone-mineral content measurements; Limb salvage surgery for primary bone tumours; Chemotherapy and radiotherapy in sarcoma of bone and the musculoskeletal system; Index

Readership: Orthopaedic surgeons in higher specialist training