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this demanding subspecialty area.
Robert Barrack, MD, Robert E. Booth Jr, MD, Jess H. Lonner, MD, Joseph C. McCarthy, MD, Michael A. Mont, MD, and Harry E. Rubash, MD, Editors
Area of Focus: Hip, Knee,
& Lower Extremity
Developed by the Hip Society and the
Knee Society and published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons.
Expert hip and knee surgeons evaluated thousands of recent articles, identifying critical information. Their efforts bring you a thorough and broad-based presented of surgical principles, current controversies, specific conditions and treatment alternatives in hip and knee reconstruction.
Each chapter includes an annotated bibliography to guide further study.
Sections include:
- Implant materials
- Imaging
- Biology of bone grafts
- Inflammatory arthritis
- Outcomes assessment
- Biomechanics of the hip and knee
- Surgical approaches and principles
- Design evolution of cemented and cementless total
hip replacement
- Infection
- Osteotomy
- Evaluating the arthritic knee
- Fixation in total knee replacement
- Rehabilitation
- Revision total knee replacement
Published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. (Promotional copy courtesy of the AAOS.)
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