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Plastic Surgery

Volume 6: Hand and Upper Limb

  • 5th Edition - August 25, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: James Chang, Peter C. Neligan
  • Language: English

Comprehensive and fully up to date, the six-volume Plastic Surgery remains the gold standard text in this complex area of surgery. Completely revised to meet the demands of both… Read more

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Comprehensive and fully up to date, the six-volume Plastic Surgery remains the gold standard text in this complex area of surgery. Completely revised to meet the demands of both the trainee and experienced surgeon, Hand and Upper Extremity, Volume 6 of Plastic Surgery, 5th Edition, features new, full-color clinical photos, procedural videos, lectures, and authoritative coverage of hot topics in the field. Editor-narrated video presentations offer a step-by-step audio-visual walkthrough of techniques and procedures.

Key features

  • New chapters cover nerve transfers, aesthetics, and pain management; coverage throughout includes new, pioneering translational work shaping the future of hand and upper extremity surgery
  • New digital video preface by Dr. Peter C. Neligan addresses the changes across all six volumes
  • New treatment and decision-making algorithms added to chapters where applicable
  • New video lectures and editor-narrated slide presentations offer a step-by-step audiovisual walkthrough of techniques and procedures
  • Evidence-based advice from an expanded roster of international experts allows you to apply the very latest advances in hand and upper extremity plastic surgery and ensure optimal outcomes
  • Purchase this volume individually or own the entire set, with the ability to search across all six volumes online!
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Plastic Surgeons

Table of contents

Plastic surgery contributions to hand surgery

1 Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Hand

1 Examination of the Upper Extremity

1 Treatment of the Upper Extremity Amputee

1 The Fingertip, Nail Plate and Nail Bed: Anatomy, Repair and Reconstruction

1 Infections of the Hand

1 Intro

1 Introduction: Plastic Surgery Contributions to Hand Surgery

1 Peripheral Nerve Repair and Reconstruction

1 Embryology, Classification, and Principles of the Management of Congenital Hand Disorders

1 Anatomy and biomechanics of the hand

1 The Ischemic Hand

2 Anesthesia for Upper Extremity Surgery

2 Hand Fractures and Joint Injuries

2 The Spastic Hand

2 Diagnostic Imaging of the Hand and Wrist

2 Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Hand

2 Brachial Plexus Injuries: Adult and Pediatric

2 Examination of the upper extremity

2 Whole Limb Upper Extremity Malformations

2 Upper Extremity Composite Allotransplantation

3 Principles of Internal Fixation as Applied to the Hand and Wrist

3 Fractures and Dislocations of the Wrist and Distal Radius

3 The Stiff Hand

3 Aesthetic Surgery of the Hand

3 Malformations with Abnormal Axis Differentiation Affecting the Hand Plate

3 Diagnostic imaging of the hand and wrist

3 Management of Dupuytren’s Disease

3 Restoration of Upper Extremity Function in Tetraplegia

4 Extensor Tendon Injuries

4 Tendon Transfer for Reconstruction of the Wrist and Hand

4 Malformations with Abnormal Axis Differentiation Affecting the Hand Plate: Unspecified Axis

4 The Painful Hand

4 Anesthesia for upper extremity surgery

4 Osteoarthritis in the Hand and Wrist

4 Hand Therapy

5 Hand Deformations and Dysplasias

5 Replantation and Revascularization

5 Rheumatologic Conditions of the Hand and Wrist

5 Nerve Transfers

5 Principles of internal fixation

6 Reconstructive Surgery of the Mutilated Hand

6 Occupational Hand Disorders

6 Free-functioning Muscle Transfer in the Upper Extremity

6 Nail and fingertip reconstruction

6 Congenital Hand Dysplasias: Tumorous Conditions

7 Congenital Hand Dyplasias: Congenital Contractures

7 Thumb Reconstruction: Non-microsurgical Techniques

7 Hand fractures and joint injuries

7 Nerve Entrapment Syndromes

8 Thumb Reconstruction: Microsurgical Techniques

8 Fractures and dislocations of the wrist and distal radius

8 Growth Considerations in the Pediatric Upper Extremity

9 Flexor tendon injuries and reconstruction

10 Extensor tendon injuries

11 Replantation

12 Reconstructive surgery of the mutilated hand

13 Thumb reconstruction: non microsurgical techniques

14 Thumb reconstruction: microsurgical techniques

15 Infections of the hand

16 Tumors of the hand

17 Dupuytren's disease

18 Osteoarthritis in the hand and wrist

19 Rheumatologic conditions in the hand and wrist

20 Occupational hand disorders

21 Nerve entrapment syndromes

22 Peripheral nerve repair and reconstruction

23 Brachial plexus injuries: Adult and pediatric

24 Tetraplegia

25 Tendon transfers

26 Nerve transfers

27 Free functioning muscle transfer

28 The ischemic hand

29 The spastic hand

30 The Stiff Hand: Prevention and Treatment

31 The Painful hand

32 Congenital hand 1: Embryology, classification and principles

33 Congenital hand 2: Malformations - Whole Limb

34 Congenital hand 3: Malformations – Abnormal Axis differentiation – Hand plate

35 Congenital hand 4: Malformations – Abnormal Axis differentiation – Hand plate - unspecified axis

36 Congenital hand 5: Deformations & Dysplasias

37 Congenital Hand 6: Dysplasias – Tumorous conditions

38 Congenital hand 7: Dysplasias – Congenital contractures

39 Growth considerations in the pediatric upper extremity

40 Treatment of the upper extremity amputee

41 Upper extremity composite allotransplantation

42 Aesthetic surgery for the hand

43 Hand therapy

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 21, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

JC

James Chang

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA

PN

Peter C. Neligan

Peter Neligan, MB, FRCS, FRCSC, FAC., is a board-certified plastic surgeon, Director of the Center for Reconstructive Surgery at UW Medical Center - Montlake, and a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at UW School of Medicine. Dr. Neligan specializes in reconstructive surgery including flap surgery, lymphatic surgery, facial re-animation and facial transplantation.. He strives to provide the best care for patients and provide them with the best treatments available. He is excited by new techniques and solutions and always tries to improve every aspect of care. Dr. Neligan has authored four books, 180 scientific papers, 75 book chapters, edited 10 textbooks and is editor-in-chief of the Journal for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is president of the Plastic Surgery Foundation, a member of multiple professional organizations and is heavily involved in UW's Plastic Surgery Training Program
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA