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Trauma / authors, Charles Court-Brown, Margaret McQueen, Paul Tornetta III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Court-Brown, Charles M.
- Series:
- Orthopaedic surgery essentials
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fractures--Treatment.
- Fractures.
- Orthopedic surgery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (565 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Willkins, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written by the world's foremost trauma surgeons, this volume of our Orthopaedic Surgery Essentials Series presents all the information residents need during trauma surgery rotation or service. It can easily be read cover to cover during a rotation or used for quick reference before a patient workup or operation. The user-friendly, visually stimulating format features ample illustrations, bulleted lists, boxes, and tables. Coverage begins with brief chapters on fracture epidemiology and healing and proceeds to fracture types and injuries at each anatomic site. A section describes the various surgical and nonsurgical techniques used in fracture management. Concluding chapters discuss postoperative complications.
- Contents:
- Epidemiology
- Fracture healing and biomechanics
- The multiply injured patient
- Open fractures
- Gunshot injuries
- Stress fractures
- Periprosthetic fractures
- Osteoporotic fractures
- Pathological fractures
- Shoulder girdle
- Proximal humeral fractures
- Humeral diaphyseal fractures
- Distal humeral fractures
- Proximal forearm fractures and elbow dislocations
- Fractures of the forearm diaphysis
- Fractures of the distal radius and ulna
- Hand fractures and dislocations
- Cervical spine fractures
- Thoracolumbar fractures and dislocations
- Pelvic and acetabular fractures
- Proximal femoral fractures and hip dislocations
- Subtrochanteric fractures
- Femoral diaphyseal fractures
- Distal femoral fractures
- Patellar fractures
- Proximal tibia fractures and knee dislocations
- Tibia and fibula diaphyseal fractures
- Tibial plafond fractures
- Ankle fractures
- Foot fractures and dislocations
- Nonoperative management
- Plating
- Intramedullary nailing
- Other internal fixation techniques
- External fixation
- Arthroplasty
- Amputations
- Acute compartment syndrome
- Nonunions and bone defects
- Infection
- Other complications.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7822-4
- OCLC:
- 908076005
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