“On the whole, I can enthusiastically recommend this text to hand surgeons at many levels who seek a better understanding of osseous and ligamentous injuries of the wrist and carpus … Drs. Garcia-Elias and Mathoulin are to be commended for assembling such a compelling and comprehensive collection.” — Journal of Hand Surgery

Hand and wrist injuries account for millions of emergency room visits each year. Although the most frequent type of articular wrist injury involves the distal radius, there are many other fractures that require skillful intervention to obtain maximum, long-term function. This book focuses on those complex intra-articular wrist injuries that have not been extensively covered in the past, providing a complete picture of their clinical, radiographic and therapeutic features. It is essential for all specialists who are regularly confronted with these challenging injuries.

Special Features:

• Each chapter written by a renowned international specialist who has pioneered significant advances in the field in the last five years
• Presents a detailed review of surgical approaches to acute intra-articular wrist injuries, ranging from partial ligament tears to the most complicated dislocations
• Provides an overview of basic wrist anatomy, biomechanics, injury classification, clinical presentation, assessment and diagnosis, and treatment recommendations
• Includes discussions of the most promising minimally invasive treatments, especially arthroscopically guided fracture reduction
• Highlights all concepts in nearly 500 instructive, beautifully drawn surgical diagrams, radiographs and intraoperative photographs

Packed with practical treatment guidelines, Articular Injury of the Wrist is invaluable for all hand surgeons as well as for orthopedic and plastic surgeons and fellows. It will quickly increase their knowledge of those difficult wrist injuries that have not been well documented previously, but are no less devastating in terms of early joint degeneration and dysfunction if not treated properly.

Contents

۱ Introduction
۲ A Freeh Look at Distal Radius Anatomy
۳ Surgical Approaches to the Wrist Joint
۴ Imaging of Articular Injury of the Wrist
۵ Trapeziumr Trapezoid,, and Capitate Fractures
۶ Flamate and Hook of the Hamate Fractures
۷ Fractures of the Pisiform Bone
۸ Proximal Row Fractures (Other Than Scaphoid and Pisiform Fractures): Triquetrum and Lunate Fractures
۹ Undisplaced Scaphoid Fractures
۱۰ Displaced Scaphoid Waist Fractures
۱۱ Scaphoid Proximal Pole Fractures
۱۲ Perilunate Dislocations
۱۳ Scaphocapitate Fracture-Dislocation
۱۴ Fracture-dislocations Other than Perilunate
۱۵ Partial Tears of the Scapholunate Ligament
۱۶ Arthroscopic Dorsal Capsuloligamentous Repair in the Treatment of Chronic Scapholunate Ligament Tears
۱۷ Open Treatment of Scapholunate Ligament Disruptions
۱۸ Lunotriquetral Dissociation
۱۹ Radiocarpal Dislocation
۲۰ Intra-articular Fractures of the Distal Radius (AO types C3r with Special Focus in C3.3), Open Approach
۲۱ Intra-articular Fractures of the Distal Radius (AO type C3)r (Dry) Arthroscopic Approach
۲۲ Unstable Ulnar Styloid Fracture
۲۳ Natural History of Traumatic TFCC Tears
۲۴ Triangular Fibrecartilage Tears
۲۵ Galeazzi Fracture-dislocation
۲۶ Complex Open Fracture-dislocations of the Wrist
۲۷ Role of Hand Therapy in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures
۲۸ Role of Hand Therapy in the Treatment of Wrist Instability