Current Practice in Hand Surgery
- 1st Edition - January 20, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Jin Bo Tang, David Elliot, Roy Meals
- Language: English
Offering authoritative advice, technical tips, and personal approaches from renowned experts in hand surgery worldwide, Current Practice in Hand Surgery is a uniquely glob… Read more
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Description
Description
Offering authoritative advice, technical tips, and personal approaches from renowned experts in hand surgery worldwide, Current Practice in Hand Surgery is a uniquely global, practical resource to help guide clinical practice. In print and on video, key opinion leaders in the field cover everything from infection, compartment syndrome, and joint stiffness to hand fractures and dislocation to reconstruction and replantation of hands and digits—including particularly challenging disorders and future research directions.
Key features
Key features
- Contains the collective opinions and recommendations from teams of active, leading experts and investigators in hand surgery worldwide, resulting in an unmatched volume of today’s wisdom in this complex field
- Shares individual authors’ unique surgical techniques and outcomes—both in print and on video
- Covers key topics such as arthroscopic wrist surgery, primary flexor tendon repair, nerve repair and reconstruction, flap coverage for the hand and upper extremity, management of the mutilated hand, congenital hand disorders, connective tissue diseases, tumors of the hand and upper extremity, neuropathic pain, improving hand function after cerebral palsy, stroke, or brain damage, and more
- Provides extensive visual guidance through clinical and operative photos, radiographs, and illustrations
- Suitable for all levels of readership, the text includes a variety of rich content types, from Boxes summarizing key points, to In-Depth Advice based on career-long experience, to In-Depth Analysis providing cutting-edge insights, making it a go-to resource for clinicians of any level
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Table of contents
Table of contents
PART I General Hand Surgery Approaches
1. Modern Clinical Settings and Approaches
2. Infection, Compartment Syndrome, and Joint Stiffness
PART II Fractures and Dislocations
3. Hand Fractures and Dislocations
4. Late Problems after Bone and Joint Trauma
5. Distal Radius Fractures
6. Fractures of the Elbow and Forearm
PART III Wrist and Distal Radioulnar Joint
7. Evolution and Current Methods of Arthroscopic Wrist Surgery
8. Acute Scaphoid Fractures
9. Scaphoid Nonunion or Malunion and Wrist Arthritis: Unsolved Problems
10. Carpal Instability: Current Techniques
11. Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability
12. Treatment of Kienböck Disease: A Major Unsolved Problem
13. Carpal Dislocations
14. Other Carpal Fractures and Carpal Disorders
PART IV Tendons and Nerves
15. Primary Flexor Tendon Repair
16. Secondary Flexor Tendon Surgery
17. Extensor Tendon Repair and Reconstruction
18. Entrapment Neuropathies of the Upper Extremity: Current Practice
19. Nerve Repair and Reconstruction: Updated Methods
20. Traumatic Adult Pan-Brachial Plexus Injuries: Current Methods and Variations
21. Tendon Transfers After Nerve Injuries to the Arm and Forearm
PART V Soft-Tissue Coverage and Microsurgery
22. Soft-Tissue Cover of the Thumb and Fingers
23. Flap Coverage for the Hand and Upper Extremity
24. Replantation of Digits and Hands: Current Indications and Dealing with Difficult Patients
25. Reconstruction of the Hand and Digits
26. Management of a Mutilated Hand
PART VI Other Difficult Disorders
27. Dupuytren Disease
28. Trapeziometacarpal Osteoarthritis: Current Approaches and Unsolved Problems
29. Congenital Hand Disorders: Differences in Strategies and Treatment
30. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Tendinopathies, and Other Connective Tissue Diseases
31. Chronic Vascular Disorders of the Hand
32. Enhancing Hand Control in Tetraplegia
33. Improving Hand Function after Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, or Brain Damage
34. Tumors of the Hand and Upper Extremity
35. Neuropathic Pain of the Upper Extremity
36. Topics With Major Uncertainties, Including Birth Palsy and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
1. Modern Clinical Settings and Approaches
2. Infection, Compartment Syndrome, and Joint Stiffness
PART II Fractures and Dislocations
3. Hand Fractures and Dislocations
4. Late Problems after Bone and Joint Trauma
5. Distal Radius Fractures
6. Fractures of the Elbow and Forearm
PART III Wrist and Distal Radioulnar Joint
7. Evolution and Current Methods of Arthroscopic Wrist Surgery
8. Acute Scaphoid Fractures
9. Scaphoid Nonunion or Malunion and Wrist Arthritis: Unsolved Problems
10. Carpal Instability: Current Techniques
11. Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability
12. Treatment of Kienböck Disease: A Major Unsolved Problem
13. Carpal Dislocations
14. Other Carpal Fractures and Carpal Disorders
PART IV Tendons and Nerves
15. Primary Flexor Tendon Repair
16. Secondary Flexor Tendon Surgery
17. Extensor Tendon Repair and Reconstruction
18. Entrapment Neuropathies of the Upper Extremity: Current Practice
19. Nerve Repair and Reconstruction: Updated Methods
20. Traumatic Adult Pan-Brachial Plexus Injuries: Current Methods and Variations
21. Tendon Transfers After Nerve Injuries to the Arm and Forearm
PART V Soft-Tissue Coverage and Microsurgery
22. Soft-Tissue Cover of the Thumb and Fingers
23. Flap Coverage for the Hand and Upper Extremity
24. Replantation of Digits and Hands: Current Indications and Dealing with Difficult Patients
25. Reconstruction of the Hand and Digits
26. Management of a Mutilated Hand
PART VI Other Difficult Disorders
27. Dupuytren Disease
28. Trapeziometacarpal Osteoarthritis: Current Approaches and Unsolved Problems
29. Congenital Hand Disorders: Differences in Strategies and Treatment
30. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Tendinopathies, and Other Connective Tissue Diseases
31. Chronic Vascular Disorders of the Hand
32. Enhancing Hand Control in Tetraplegia
33. Improving Hand Function after Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, or Brain Damage
34. Tumors of the Hand and Upper Extremity
35. Neuropathic Pain of the Upper Extremity
36. Topics With Major Uncertainties, Including Birth Palsy and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Review quotes
Review quotes
4 Stars! "...provides an excellent overview of current trends in hand surgery and hand practice. [it] is highly relevant to both practicing general orthopedic and plastic surgeons as well as to specialized hand surgeons. The book’s purpose is to detail the major conditions hand surgeons currently face. It also aims to review current treatment practices and relevant evidence.... [It] will be beneficial for upper-level medical students, residents, fellows, and physicians wanting to improve their knowledge of hand surgery topics.... This book is of high quality and is very useful for the intended audience of physicians. It provides an excellent overview of many conditions for general practitioners as well as specialized knowledge necessary for the intricate practice of hand surgery. This certainly fills a need for coverage of hand surgery previously not seen in textbooks. I recommend this book for both trainees and general practitioners learning about hand surgery as well as for experienced hand surgeons." Review by Michael Foy, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine), ©Doody's Review Service, 2025. Doody's Score: 94, 4 Stars!
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 10, 2025
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
JT
Jin Bo Tang
Affiliations and expertise
Communications Director, International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand Scientific Advisor and Former Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume); Professor of Surgery, Founding Chair, Department of Hand Surgery, The Hand Surgery Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China; Professor of Surgery (Adjunct), The Alpert Medical, School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island