Complex Knee Ligament Injuries From Diagnosis to Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Margheritini, Fabrizio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Espregueira-Mendes, João (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gobbi, Alberto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Orthopedics.; Sports medicine.; Traumatology.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Sports Medicine.; Traumatic Surgery.

This book, featuring a practical hands-on format, describes an up-to-date and comprehensive approach to the management of complex knee injuries. The aim is both to equip practitioners with reliable expert guidance and to foster consensus in a field characterized by continuing debate. Initial respons...

Table of Contents:

• Anatomy and Biomechanics
• Classification and Algorithm treatment
• Management in the emergency room
• Instrumental Evaluation
• Neurovascular associated injuries
• Surgical Timing. Surgical Techniques: ACL+Anterolateral capsular injuries
• PCL/MCL injuries
• PCL/PLC injuries
• Bicruciate injuries
• ACL/MCL injuries
• ACL/PLC injuries
• Acute Knee Dislocations
• Chronic Knee Dislocations. Specific Scenario: Associated bone fracture
• Osteotomy in chronic complex ligaments injury
• Complex knee injuries in the young adult
• Knee dislocation in obese patients
• Knee dislocation in athletes
• Complications in complex knee ligament injuries
• Rehabilitation/bracing
• Future trends in ligaments surgery: the role of biology.