Advances in Small Animal Total Joint Replacement.

• Other Authors: Peck, Jeffrey N. (Editor), Marcellin-Little, Denis J. (Denis Jacques), 1964- (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2012.
• Series: Advances in veterinary surgery.
• Subjects: Veterinary orthopedics.; Artificial joints.; Ortopèdia veterinària.; Cirurgia veterinària.; Articulacions artificials.; Artroplàstia.; MEDICAL > Veterinary Medicine > Food Animal.; MEDICAL > Veterinary Medicine > Small Animal.; Arthroplasty, Replacement > veterinary.; Surgery, Veterinary > methods.; Pets > surgery.; Electronic books.

Advances in Small Animal Total Joint Replacement provides an up-to-date, comprehensive examination of joint replacement in veterinary surgery. Part of the Advances in Veterinary Surgery series copublished with the ACVS Foundation, the book presents an evidence-based, multi-system examination of the...

Table of Contents:

• History of joint replacement in veterinary surgery
• Implant materials: structural
• Implant materials : surface treatment
• Implant materials : weightbearing surfaces
• Methods of immediate fixation
• Biomechanical considerations in total hip replacememt
• Clinical application of total hip replacement
• Revision strategies in total hip replacement
• Biomechanical considerations in total knee replacement
• Clinical application of total knee replacement
• Biomechanical considerations in total elbow replacement
• Clinical application of total elbow replacement
• Emerging arthroplasties
• Custom prostheses.