Treatment of Elbow Lesions didactically describes the different pathologies of the elbow and their surgical treatment, thus helping to reduce the incidence of complications such as stiff elbow, heterotypic bone and joint instability, and degenerative arthritis.

Treatment of Elbow Lesions, written by world-renowned elbow orthopaedic surgeons and enhanced by colour images and tables, will be warmly welcomed not only by practitioners, but also by students and medical residents.

Contents

1. Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Elbow
2. The Clinical Evaluation of the Elbow
3. Imaging of the Elbow
4. Elbow Surgical Approaches
5. The Treatment of Distal Humerus Fractures
6. The Fractures of the Olecranon
7. The Radial Head Fractures
8. The Treatment of Coronoid Fractures and their Complications
9. Lateral Collateral Ligament Injury
10. The Complex Dislocations of the Elbow
11. The Fracture-Dislocation of the Forearm (Moneggia and Essex-Lopresti Lesions)
12. The Instability after Radial Head Excision
13. The Radial Head Prosthesis: Historical Perspective
14. The Swanson Radial Head Prosthesis
15. Bipolar Radial Head Prosthesis
16. Evolove™ Modular Metallic Radial Head Arthroplasty
17. Radial Head Prosthetic Replacement with the Avanta Implant
18. Radial Head Replacement with a Pyrocarbon Head Prothesis: Preliminary Results of a Multicentric Prospective Study
19. Elbow Stiffness
20. The Arthroscopic Treatment of the Stiff Elbow
21. The Surgery of Neglected Distal Humerus Fractures in Children and Adults
22. Total Elbow Replacement for Rheumatoid Arthritis
23. Total Elbow Arthroplasty in Acute Fracture
24. Latitude Convertible Total Elbow Prosthesis
25. Total Elbow Arthroplasty for Post-Traumatic Arthrosis
26. Revision of Failed Elbow Arthroplasty
27. Elbow Nerve Tunnel Syndromes
28. Traumatic Isolated Lesions of Musculocutaneous Nerve
29. The Traumatic Nerve-Vascular Lesions
30. The Utility of Continuous Axial Brachial Plexus Catheters after Surgery
31. Elbow Brace in Physical Therapy

Index

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