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Distal Radius Fractures

Evidence-Based Management

  • 1st Edition - February 22, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Geert Alexander Buijze, Jesse Jupiter, Michel Chammas
  • Language: English

Edited and authored by leading international experts, Distal Radius Fractures: Evidence-Based Management provides a state-of-the-art overview of diagnosis and management based… Read more

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Edited and authored by leading international experts, Distal Radius Fractures: Evidence-Based Management provides a state-of-the-art overview of diagnosis and management based on today’s best practices. Each chapter focuses on one key issue, offering a challenging case and then questioning the reader in an engaging fashion to provide the best available evidence on each topic. Practical and easy to read, this innovative text is a useful resource for all residents, physicians and surgeons who manage fractures.

Key features

  • Combines current best practices with the knowledge and experience of a global team of expert contributing authors, with a focus on practical use in applying the evidence.
  • Covers need-to-know topics such as anatomy and biomechanics, diagnostic management, acute fracture management, management of pediatric and elderly fractures, and more
  • Includes valuable case scenarios, technical tips and tricks, and pearls and pitfalls
  • Features high-quality illustrations including CT scans, x-rays, and clinical photographs
  • Consolidates the latest evidence on distal radius fractures into one convenient resource
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

All physicians, residents and students managing fractures including all orthopaedic, trauma and plastic hand surgeons

Table of contents

Section 1. Introduction

1. Principles of Evidence-Based Management of Distal Radius Fractures

2. Using Evidence to Manage Distal Radius Fractures

Section 2. Anatomy and Biomechanics

3. Epidemiology

4. Osseous and Ligamentous Anatomy of the Distal Radius

5. Biomechanics of DRF

Section 3. Diagnostic Management

6. Radiographic Parameters and Classifications

7. Role of Advanced Imaging

Section 4. Acute Fracture Management

8. Closed reduction of displaced DRF

9. Surgical versus conservative interventions for Displaced Distal Radius Fractures

10. Predictors of Instability and secondary dislocation of conservatively treated DRF

11. Plating versus Percutaneous Kirschner Wires for simple DRF

12. Volar plating versus Dorsal plating

13. Comminuted articular DRF

14. Comminuted metaphyseal DRF

15. Bone graft substitutes

16. Arthroscopic-assisted treatment of DRF

17. Simultaneous Fractures of the Distal Radius and Scaphoid

18. Galeazzi Fracture Dislocations

19. Essex Lopresti Fracture Dislocations

20. Acute DRUJ Instability

21. Concomitant ulnar styloid fractures

22. Persistent Ulnar Sided pain after DRF

23. Association Between Radiological and Patient-Reported Outcomes

24. Rehabilitation

25. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Section 5. Pediatric Fracture Management

26. Pediatric DRF

27. Pediatric Forearm Fractures

Section 6. Elderly Fracture Management

28. Fracture Fixation in the Elderly

29. Prevention of DRF

Section 7. Malunion and Nonunion

30. Diagnosing the Malunited Distal Radius

31. Treatment of the Extra-articular Malunited Distal Radius

32. Treatment of the Intra-articular Malunited Distal Radius

33. Corrective Osteotomy of Distal Radius Malunion

34. Three-Dimensional Planning and surgical guidance of Malunion Correction

35. Nonunion

Section 8. Posttraumatic Arthritis and Complications

36. Tendon ruptures after DRF

37. Chronic DRUJ Instability

38. Posttraumatic DRUJ Arthritis

39. Posttraumatic RSL Arthritis

40. Wrist contracture

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 23, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

GB

Geert Alexander Buijze

Geert Alexander Buijze, MD PhD, FEBHS ambitious hand and upper limb surgeon, edited one book and multiple journal editorial works (including “Scaphoid Fractures: Evidence-Based Management, 1st Edition. St. Louis: Elsevier (2018), 375p. ISBN: 9780323485647).
Affiliations and expertise
Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon, Clinique Générale d'Annecy, France. Assistant Professor, University Hospital CHU Montpellier, France, Postdoc, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

JJ

Jesse Jupiter

Affiliations and expertise
Hansjoerg Wyss/AO Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department Of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Past President, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, Past President, American Association of Hand Surgery, USA

MC

Michel Chammas

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Orthopaedic Hand and Upper Extremity Trauma Surgery, University of Montpellier, France

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