
Managing Difficult Problems in Hand Surgery: Challenges, Complications and Revisions, An Issue of Hand Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 39-3 - July 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Sonu Jain
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 4 0 0 5 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 4 0 0 6 - 1
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Contains 18 practice-oriented topics including management of complex hand and wrist ligament injuries; challenges in nerve repair and reconstruction; tendon transfers: improving results, decreasing complications; infection management for the hand surgeon; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews of managing difficult problems in hand surgery, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Current Outcomes and Treatments of Complex Phalangeal and Metacarpal Fractures
- Key points
- Introduction
- Stiffness
- Malunion
- Nonunion
- Articular defects
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Scaphoid and Carpal Bone Fracture: The Difficult Cases and Approach to Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Author’s approach to management of scaphoid fractures
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Declaration of Interests
- Recognizing and Treating Unique Distal Radius Fracture Patterns that are Prone to Displacement
- Key points
- Introduction
- Factors of instability
- Radiographic evaluation
- Treatment based on fixation techniques
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Financial disclosure
- Complications and Revision Surgery of Forearm Fractures
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Evaluation
- Techniques
- Clinical outcomes
- Clinical cases
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Managing Difficult Problems in Small Joint Arthroplasty: Challenges, Complications, and Revisions
- Key points
- Introduction
- Metacarpophalangeal arthroplasty
- Proximal interphalangeal arthroplasty
- Carpometacarpal arthroplasty
- Summary
- Supplementary data
- Carpometacarpal Joint Pathology in the Thumb and Hand: Evaluation and Management of Difficult Conditions
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy and pathophysiology
- Physical examination
- Imaging
- Treatment
- Complications and revisions
- Evaluation
- Surgical revisions
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Wrist and Distal Radioulnar Joint Arthroplasty: Maximizing Results in Difficult Conditions
- Key points
- Total wrist arthroplasty
- Summary
- Distal radioulnar joint arthroplasty
- Clinics care points
- Revision Arthroplasty in the Challenging Elbow
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative evaluation (what is the problem?)
- Preoperative evaluation (component problems)
- Surgical approach
- Special techniques
- Specific scenarios
- Outcomes and complications
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Disclaimers
- Grants supporting this work
- Wrist Arthritis and Arthrodesis: Preserving Function, Minimizing Problems
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy and kinematics
- Causes of wrist arthritis
- Evaluation
- Management options
- Summary
- Conflicts of interest
- Management of Complex Hand and Wrist Ligament Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint ligamentous injuries
- Finger ligament injuries
- Scapholunate interosseous ligament injuries
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- InternalBrace for Intercarpal Ligament Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Technique
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Compression Neuropathies: Revisions and Managing Expectations
- Key points
- Background
- Basic science evidence of nerve compression
- Preoperative revision nerve surgery principles
- Intraoperative principles of revision nerve surgery
- Common interventions for revision nerve releases
- Prevention of perineural scarring after revision surgery
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Challenges in Nerve Repair and Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Surgical treatment
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Approach to Tendinopathies of the Upper Limb: What Works
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Therapeutic options
- Surgical techniques
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Flexor Tendon Repair: Avoidance and Management of Complications
- Key points
- Introduction
- General principles of repair
- Discussion
- Adhesion formation
- Triggering
- Bowstringing
- Swan neck deformity
- Lumbrical plus deformity
- Summary
- Disclosures
- Extensor Tendon Repair: Avoidance and Management of Complications
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Extensor tendon repair outcomes and complications
- Managing complications
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Tendon Transfers: Techniques to Minimize Complications
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative management
- Intraoperative management
- Postoperative management
- Complication management
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Supplementary data
- Advanced Dupuytren Contracture: Approach to Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathoanatomy
- Presentation and evaluation
- Common options for management
- Management of recurrent disease
- Management of proximal interphalangeal joint contractures
- Complications: wounds and hematoma
- Complications: nerve and artery injury
- Boutonniere deformity in Dupuytren disease
- Swan neck deformity in Dupuytren disease
- Complications: complex regional pain syndrome
- Adjuvant therapy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Infection Management for the Hand Surgeon
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 39-3
- Published: July 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323940054
- eBook ISBN: 9780323940061
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