Sinopsis

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

1. Introduction
2. Anatomy of the distal radius
3. Surgical approaches to the wrist joints
4. Incidence and pathomechanics of carpal injuries
5. Imaging of the articular injury of the wrist
6. Trapezium, trapezoid and capitate fractures
7. Hamate and Hook of the Hamate fractures
8. Pisiform fractures
9. Proximal row fractures (scaphoid and Kienböck’s excluded)
10. Undisplaced scaphoid fractures
11. Displaced scaphoid waist fractures
12. Scaphoid proximal pole fractures
13. Perilunate dislocations
14. Trans-scaphoid perilunate dislocations
15. Scapho-capitate fracture-dislocation
16. Fracture-dislocations of the wrist, other than perilunate
17. Partial tears of the scapholunate ligaments
18. Arthroscopy treatment of scapholunate ligament disruptions
19. Open treatment of scapholunate ligament disruptions
20. Lunotriquetral dissociation
21. Radiocarpal fracture-dislocation
22. Intraarticular fracture of the distal radius (AO types B-C1-C2)
23. Intraarticular fracture of the distal radius (AO type C3)
24. Unstable ulnar styloid fracture
25. Natural History of traumatic TFCC tears
26. Triangular fibrocartilage tears
27. Galleazzi’s fracture-dislocation
28. Complex open fracture-dislocations of the wrist