Essentials In Elbow Surgery: A Comprehensive Approach to Common Elbow Disorders

by Samuel Antuïa (Editor), Raïl Barco (Editor)

Overview

The idea of this book is very simple. Nowadays, there are many good, very comprehensive, “thick” books available on Elbow Surgery. Although they are useful to obtain discrete information about specific topics, they are too large to be a user friendly for a general orthopedic surgeon facing common elbow problems. The increasing interest among young surgeons on elbow problems is remarkable. It has been our experience throughout the years, teaching our residents and visitors, that there is a real demand for a less extensive book, easy to read, and with practical information about the most commonly encountered problems of the elbow. This text would be enough to understand the common elbow practice for a general orthopedic surgeon and a guide to learn basic elbow surgery during training. There is nothing like this available today. It will be strongly oriented to practice, and all the authors, well known internationally for their expertise on elbow surgery, will be homogeneous in their message.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447146247
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	02/13/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Samuel Antuña, MD, PhD, FEBOT, Chief of the Shoulder and Elbow Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, and Raúl Barco, MD, FEBOT, Consulting Surgeon in Shoulder and Elbow, Shoulder and Elbow Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Hospital Madrid Norte Sanchinarro, Madrid.

Table of Contents

Applied anatomy & Surgical Approaches to the Elbow.- Lateral Elbow Pain.- Medial Elbow Pain.- Distal Humerus Fractures.- Fractures and Dislocations of the Proximal Ulna & Radial head.- Elbow Stiffness.- Elbow Instability.- The Arthritic Elbow.- Tendon Injuries.- Safety in Elbow Surgery: From Open to Arthroscopy.

Editorial Reviews

This is a good atlas & text on elbow fractures and ligamentous tears. … This is a good book for general orthopedic doctors.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, November, 2015)

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Benjamin A Goldberg, M.D.(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This brief book (166 pages, including index) describes common elbow conditions and includes good photos of some of them.
Purpose: The purpose is to present a "comprehensive approach to common elbow disorders." Although it does discuss common elbow conditions, it does so with insufficient detail about diagnostic criteria and surgical techniques to be truly comprehensive.
Audience: This book was designed to be an easy-to-read, less extensive book for a general orthopedic surgeons and orthopedic residents. It is successful at that, but it is less comprehensive.
Features: The book briefly discusses the common disorders of the elbow and their treatment. There are some excellent radiographs and photos showing treatment of some difficult fractures and other common conditions. However, the descriptions of how to treat these conditions do not go into enough detail to help someone unfamiliar with them provide adequate treatment.
Assessment: This is a very slight book that covers a lot of common disorders of the elbow, but it is not as useful as more comprehensive, bigger, books that would be needed by surgeons unfamiliar with these conditions to perform these procedures.

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