Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach

Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2021!

For four outstanding editions, this highly regarded text has delivered a surgeon’s-eye view of orthopaedic anatomy, featuring easy-to-follow descriptions and hundreds of superb, full-color illustrations. The state-of-the-art fifth edition brings you up to date with the latest advancements in the field. Utilizing a highly relevant anatomic approach, this edition is crucial as surgical methods evolve and approaches become more refined.

This updated reference is designed to enhance your anatomical knowledge, increase safety, and improve patient outcomes, making it an essential resource for today’s orthopaedic surgeon.

• Comprehensive Chapters: Each section details the techniques and pitfalls of surgical approaches, offering a clear preview of anatomic landmarks, incisions, and highlighting potential dangers during both superficial and deep dissection.
• Procedural Videos: Seventeen high-quality videos provide over an hour of surgeries from multiple angles, including a split screen with diagrams for enhanced learning.
• Updated Surgical Approaches: Features expanded methods for emergency decompression of a compartment syndrome of the lower leg and forearm, plus the addition of a classic approach for distal radial fractures fixation.
• New Coverage: Includes posterior and postero-lateral approaches to the tibial plateau, surgical hip dislocation, minimally invasive anterior hip joint approach, and lateral approach to the metatarso-phalangeal joint of the hallux.
• Detailed Revisions: Offers clear depictions of the iliopectinal fascia and the step technique for the flip osteotomy of the greater trochanter.

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Authors:
Stanley Hoppenfeld MD (Author)
Edition:
Fifth
Publication Date:
October 22, 2016