Autologous Resurfacing and Fracture Dowelling A Manual of Transplantation Technique /

• Main Authors: Draenert, Klaus (Author), Draenert, Yvette (Author), Pohlemann, Tim (Author), Regel, Gerd (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.

This book describes in detail a unique and very precise operative technique that uses autologous cartilage/bone grafts for the reconstruction of load-bearing joint surfaces and for dowelling of non-unions. The technique, employing diamond instruments and a wet grinding process, has been developed an...

Table of Contents:

• Historical Background
• Microscopical Anatomy
• Growth
• Turnover and Healing Processes
• Bone Substitutes
• Cartilage-Bone Grafting
• Clinical Practice of Autologous Resurfacing®
• Fracture Dowelling
• Instrumentation.