Fractures of the Acetabulum - Softcover

Letournel, Emile; Judet, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642754376 ISBN 13: 9783642754371

Verlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2012

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Reseña del editor:

At the request of our publishers, I accepted the task of preparing this second edition. I felt this was necessary for several reasons: new imaging technologies such as CT scanning and 3-D reconstructions are now used routinely, the in­ dications for employing improved approaches are clearer, and reconstructions are facilitated by new internal fixation devices. Above all, I thought it was time to report the long-term results of the 940 acetabular fractures, 90070 of which were treated surgically - a unique series. In spite of the experience acquired from the three previous reviews of cases (1966, 1971, and 1978), I failed to foresee the amount of time this revision would need. In fact, it took more than 3 years to follow up the larger number of cases, and 159 patients (out of 800, i. e. 22. 7%) were not included as they had moved since their last review and simply could not be located. At a time when it is in fashion to evaluate the cost of health care, it is strange to see how public administrators, so keen on evaluating the immediate cost of our opera­ tions, do not care about the quality of their long-term results, which appears to us, however, to be the best basis for the choice of the initial treatment.

Reseña del editor:

This book was written to help orthopaedic and trauma surgeons understand andtreat acetabular fractures, laying out a method of reading both plain radiographs and CT scans. Starting from a perfect anatomical understanding of each fracture, readers are then shown in detail how to choose the most appropriate treatment and, in particular, the best approach foreach. The possible complications of surgery, especially ectopic bone formation, and the way to prevent and deal with them are fully covered. A detailed account is given of the long-term results (3-30 years post-injury) in 569 cases operated on within 21 days of injury, 157 operated on at between 3 weeks and 4 months, and 91 cases in which operative reconstruction was delayed still longer. A self-trainingchapter on the interpretation of radiographs completes the book. This second edition of "Fractures of the Acetabulum" has been greatly expanded from the first, with comprehensive coverage of two- and three-dimensional CTscanning, many new details on surgical approaches and techniques, and a full analysis of the results of surgical treatment of 869 operated casesfrom among the 940 cases (updated from 469 in the first edition) included inthe book: the largest series ever published of acetabular fractures operatedupon by the same surgeon. Dr. Letournel considers that a trauma surgeon facing an acetabular fracture has to be able to answer one question: Does this fracture need surgical treatment or not? To answer that question the surgeon has to: 1. Gain a complete understanding of the anatomical type of the fracture 2. Accurately assess the displacement involved 3. Take into account the associated lesions and the age of the fracture

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• Verlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3642754376
• ISBN 13: 9783642754371
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 733
• Herausgeber: Elson Reginald A.