DESCRIPTION:
Techniques in Knee Surgery provides an in-depth review by leading experts of the surgical techniques most commonly employed to reconstruct and mend the knee. With original artwork accompanying contributions from surgeons known for their skill at executing specific, precise surgeries, this book is part atlas and part instruction text. Complete with suggested readings, histories, and rehabilitation therapies, the text encompasses all aspects of knee surgery in order to better convey both the expected functions and the expected outcomes of knee surgeries.
CONTENTS:
1. Arthroscopic Meniscal Repair.
2. Meniscal Allograft Reconstruction: An Arthroscopically Assisted Technique.
3. Microfracture Procedure for Treatment of Full-thickness Chondral Defects: Technique, Clinical Results, and Current Basic Science Status.
4. Articular Autologous Chondrocyte Transplant.
5. Endoscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Patellar Tendon Substitution.
6. Endoscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using a Double Looped Hamstring Tendon Graft.
7. Two-incision Miniarthrotomy Technique for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Autogenous Patellar Tendon Graft.
8. Arthroscopic-assisted Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.
9. Acute and Chronic Injuries to the Lateral Corner: The Popliteus and the Lateral Collateral Ligament.
10. Multiple Ligament Reconstruction.
11. Technique of Lateral Retinacular Release and Anteromedial Tibial Tubercle Transfer.
12. Patellar Instability: Proximal and Distal Realignment.
13. Surgical Management of Chondral and Osteochondral Lesions of the Knee.
14. Arthroscopic Treatment of Degenerative Joint Disease of the Knee.
15. Subvastus Surgical Approach for Total Knee Arthroplasty.
16. Surgical Technique for Tibial Tuberosity Elevation.
17. High Tibial Osteotomy: Technique of Plate Fixation.
18. Distal Femoral Osteotomy.
19. Fresh Osteochondral Allografts for Posttraumatic Knee Defects.
20. Patellofemoral Replacement.
21. Surgical Technique for Posterior Cruciate Retaining and Posterior Cruciate Substituting Total Knee Arthroplasties.
22. The Meniscal Bearing Knee.
23. Soft Tissue Releases for the Valgus Knee.
24. Soft Tissue Releases for the Varus Knee.
25. Reconstruction of Tibial Defects.
26. Correction of Fixed Flexion Contracture in Total Knee Replacement.
27. Supracondylar Fractures Following Total Knee Replacement.
28. Removal of Metal-backed Patellar Button.
29. Extensor Mechanism Reconstruction with a Semitendinosus Graft.
30. Choices in Coverage for Wound Problems Following Total Knee Replacement.
31. Technique of Three-step Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.
