Pediatric Orthopedics in Practice - Hardcover

Hefti, Fritz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3662468093 ISBN 13: 9783662468098

Verlag: Springer, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book communicates the latest findings in pediatric orthopedics and answers key everyday questions in the field in an informative, readily understandable manner. The scope is comprehensive, encompassing all aspects of diagnosis and therapy. After an opening section on basic principles, the two main sections discuss diseases and injuries by site and cover systemic conditions including trauma, infections, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, tumors and hereditary diseases. The book is the translation of the latest edition of the well-known classic Kinderorthopädie in der Praxis, which presents the collected knowledge of experts from Basel University Children's Hospital – Fritz Hefti and his co-workers Reinald Brunner, Carol Claudius Hasler, and Gernot Jundt. This edition has been revised and updated in a variety of ways. New findings are incorporated into all chapters, important advances in treatment are presented and the latest concepts in tumor diagnosis and neuro-orthopedics are discussed. The book contains more than 150 additional illustrations, including new clinical images and radiographs and many further amusing cartoons by Franz Freuler. The aim is to make children’s orthopedics fun – in both practice and theory!

The book has received several awards.

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Fritz L. Hefti, MD, retired as Chief of the Pediatric Orthopedic Department at the Children’s Hospital, University of Basle, Switzerland, and Professor at the Medical School of the University of Basle in 2010, since which time he has been a Senior Consultant at the unit. Dr. Hefti graduated from Medical School in Basle in 1972. After specializing in Orthopedic Surgery and working as Attending Surgeon at the Pediatric Orthopedic Unit and the Unit for Traumatology at the University of Basle, he was appointed Head of the Pediatric Orthopedic Unit at the Children’s University Hospital in Basle in 1988. He went on to become Chief of the new, independent Pediatric Orthopedic Department in 1994. Dr. Hefti has been the recipient of several awards, including the Carl Rabl Award of the German Orthopaedic Society and the Hans Debrunner Award of the Swiss Orthopaedic Society, both presented for the book Pediatric Orthopedics in Practice. Since 2010 Dr. Hefti has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics. He is the author of 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous articles in books and review articles in journals.

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This book communicates the latest findings in pediatric orthopedics and answers key everyday questions in the field in an informative, readily understandable manner. The scope is comprehensive, encompassing all aspects of diagnosis and therapy. After an opening section on basic principles, the two main sections discuss diseases and injuries by site and cover systemic conditions including trauma, infections, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, tumors, and hereditary diseases. The book is the translation of the latest edition of the well-known classic Kinderorthopädie in der Praxis, which presents the collected knowledge of experts from Basel University Children's Hospital – Fritz Hefti and his co-workers Reinald Brunner, Carol Claudius Hasler, and Gernot Jundt. This edition has been revised and updated in a variety of ways. New findings are incorporated into all chapters, important advances in treatment are presented, and the latest concepts in tumor diagnosis and neuro-orthopedicsare discussed. The book contains more than 150 additional illustrations, including new clinical images and radiographs and many further amusing cartoons by Franz Freuler. The aim is to make children’s orthopedics fun – in both practice and theory!

The book has received several awards.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3662468093
• ISBN 13: 9783662468098
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 923
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