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.

• 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

Contents

۱. Modern clinical settings and approaches
۲. Infection, compartment syndrome, and joint stiffness
۳. Hand fractures and dislocations
۴. Late problems after bone and joint trauma
۵. Distal radius fractures
۶. Fractures of the elbow and forearm
۷. Evolution and current methods of arthroscopic wrist surgery
۸. Acute scaphoid fractures
۹. Scaphoid nonunion or malunion and wrist arthritis: Unsolved problems
۱۰. Carpal instability: Current techniques
۱۱. Distal radioulnar joint instability
۱۲. Treatment of Kienböck disease: A major unsolved problem
۱۳. Carpal dislocations
۱۴. Other carpal fractures and carpal disorders
۱۵. Primary flexor tendon repair
۱۶. Secondary flexor tendon surgery
۱۷. Extensor tendon repair and reconstruction
۱۸. Entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity: Current practice
۱۹. Nerve repair and reconstruction: Updated methods
۲۰. Traumatic adult pan-brachial plexus injuries: Current methods and variations
۲۱. Tendon transfers after nerve injuries to the arm and forearm
۲۲. Soft-tissue cover of the thumb and fingers
۲۳. Flap coverage for the hand and upper extremity
۲۴. Replantation of digits and hands: Current indications and dealing with difficult patients
۲۵. Reconstruction of the hand and digits
۲۶. Management of a mutilated hand
۲۷. Dupuytren disease
۲۸. Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis: Current approaches and unsolved problems
۲۹. Congenital hand disorders: Differences in strategies and treatment
۳۰. Rheumatoid arthritis, tendinopathies, and other connective tissue diseases
۳۱. Chronic vascular disorders of the hand
۳۲. Enhancing hand control in tetraplegia
۳۳. Improving hand function after cerebral palsy, stroke, or brain damage
۳۴. Tumors of the hand and upper extremity
۳۵. Neuropathic pain of the upper extremity
۳۶. Topics with major uncertainties, including birth palsy and thoracic outlet syndrome