Advanced Techniques in Limb Reconstruction Surgery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kocaoğlu, Mehmet (Editor), Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki (Editor), Eralp, Levent (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.

As a result of recent advances in surgical techniques and implant technology it is now possible to perform limb reconstruction in patients with a range of congenital, posttraumatic, and postinfection pathologies. This book is a clear, practical guide to the state-of-the-art surgical procedures emplo...

Table of Contents:

• Complex foot deformities, correction by TSF
• Combined technique: lengthening over nail
• Hindfoot reconstruction by the combined technique
• Knee arthrodesis for the treatment of infected knee arthrodesis
• Reconstruction techniques for mega bone defects (external fixation versus titanium cages versus free vascularized fibula grefts)
• Pelvic support osteotomy for the treatment of infected total hip replacement
• Treatment of fibular hemimelia
• Treatment of congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia
• Treatment of proximal focal femoral deficiency
• Combined technique: Fixator assisted nailing
• Joint distraction for special conditions
• 6 axis correction of multiapical deformities
• Lengthening and then plating / nailing
• Use of external fixation for reconstruction following bone tumor treatment
• Treatment of infected periarticular nonunions
• Hindfoot reconstruction by the combined technique
• Combined technique: FAN + LON
• Reconstruction of segmentary defects in chronic osteomyelitis by the combined technique
• Reconstruction techniques for mega bone defects (external fixation versus titanium cages versus free vascularized fibula grefts)
• Treatment of severe contractures by external fixation (elbow / knee / ankle)
• External fixation for spinal deformities.