Manual of Internal Fixation: Technique Recommended by the AO-Group Swiss Association for the Study of Internal Fixation: ASIF

by M. E. Müller, W. Bandi (With), Joseph Schatzker (Translator), M. Allgöwer, H. Willenegger

Overview

The German edition of our book entitled "Operative Frakturen­ behandlung" by M. E. MÜLLER, M. ALLGÖWER and H. WILLENEGGER (Springer, Berlin . Göttingen . Heidelberg, 1963) has been out of print now for more than three years. We are planning a new edition which will deal with the collective experience of 14,000 new cases, all treated by internal fixation, and will include the newest developments in the field of internal fixa­ tion. However, it will be some time before this new edition can be published. Increasing demands for a description of the AO technique of internal fixation has stimulated us to publish this manual. In it we shall describe in a comprehensive but somewhat apodictic mann er the principles and techniques of the AO methods of fracture treatment and reconstructive surgery, which in our hands, have stood the test of time. The book is written in a somewhat abbreviated style. It cor­ responds in subject matter to the teaching given at the AO courses in Davos, but deals with each subject more thoroughly. We have dispensed with pictures of the instruments, as these may be found in the Synthes Catalogue *. This manual should be regarded as the product of collective experiencc, containing new thoughts and new discoveries from basic research. In considering the risks of mistakes and dangers, we can only reiterate what we have already stated in "Technique of Internal Fixation of Fractures": "Open treatment of fractures is a valuable but difficult method which involves much responsibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642960673
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

General Considerations.- I. The Aims and the Fundamental Principles of the AO Method.- II. The Internal Fixation—Method of the AO.- III. Pre-operative, Operative and Post-operative Guide-Lines.- IV. Implants.- Special Part Internal Fixation of Fresh Fractures.- I. Closed Fractures in the Adult.- II. Compound Fractures in the Adult.- III. Fractures in Children.- Supplement Reconstructive Bone Surgery..- I. Pseudarthroses.- II. Osteotomies.- III. Arthrodeses.