BookMichel Bonnin, Annunziato Amendola, Johan Bellemans, Steven MacDonald, Jacques Ménétrey.
Summary: Pushed by the progress of biology, technology and biomechanics, knee surgery has dramatically evolved in the last decades. This book is a "state of the art" concerning all aspects of knee surgery from ligament reconstruction to Total Knee Arthroplasty. An international panel of renowned authors have worked on this didactic fully illustrated book. It will help young surgeons to understand basic sciences and modern sugical techniques. The experienced surgeon will find help to deal with difficult cases and clarifications in recent technologic advances such as cartilage surgery, navigation and mini invasive surgery.
Contents:
I. The traumatic knee
Basic sciences
Clinical basis
The menisci
The ACL
The PCL
Bicruciate injuries and dislocations
Patello-femoral joint
II. The degenerative knee
Osteoarthritis of the patello-femoral joint
Indications in osteoarthritis of the femoro-tibial joint
Osteotomy around the knee
Unicondylar knee arthroplasty
III. Primary total knee arthroplasty
Design and concept in TKA
Surgical techniques
The patella in TKA
Navigation in TKA
Results in primary TKA
Difficulties in primary TKA
Failures and revision in TKA.