BookPhilippe Neyret, Guillaume Demey, editors.
Summary: The knee presents numerous challenges to the orthopaedic surgeon and this book presents techniques and guidance both for common surgical procedures and also for rare and difficult interventions in knee surgery. Surgical techniques and approaches in knee surgery are covered as well as postoperative complications and rehabilitation. Chapters also discuss clinical examination and preparation of the patient prior to the procedure. Surgery of the Knee is a comprehensive step-by-step guide that features more than 500 operative photographs, radiological and surgical drawings of exceptional quality. The Editors have brought together a team of experts within the field ensuring that orthopaedic surgeons in training and those wishing to improve their knowledge of the knee will find this book to be an indispensable resource for performing knee surgery.
Contents:
The general principals of patient positioning and set up
Arthroscopy of the knee
Meniscectomy
Meniscal sutures
Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction : surgical technique
Revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
Surgical technique for the arthroscopic reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament
Posterolateral corner and lateral collateral ligament reconstruction
Dislocations and bicruciate lesions
Synovectomies of the knee
Surgical management of chondral and osteochondral lesions
Iliotibial band syndrome
Surgical indications in the treatment of osteoarthritis
Osteotomy: general conceptions and indications
Distal opening wedge femoral osteotomy for the treatment of valgus deformity.-High tibial osteotomy
High tibal varus osteotomy
Anterior opening wedge osteotomy of the tibia for the treatment of genu recurvatum
Surgical technique for a double osteotomy
Lateral opening wedge tibial osteotomy
Patello femoro arthritis and the lateral vertical partial patellectomy
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) to the other compartment
Total knee replacement in medial arthritis: surgical technique
Total knee replacement in lateral arthritis specifics and surgical techniques.-Computer assisted total knee arthroplasty
Total knee prosthesis after valgus osteotomy of the tibia
Revision unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
Revision total knee arthroplasty : planning and technical considerations
Episodic patellar dislocation
Deepening femoral trochleoplasty
Shortening the patella tendon
Acute ruptures of the quadriceps tendon
Chronic rupture of the extensor apparatus
Patella fractures
Surgical management of the stiff knee
Lenghthening of the patella tendon
Stiffness of the knee: release according to judet
Post operative complications. .