Thoroughly revised to bring you up to date with the latest techniques in the field, Operative Techniques Hand and Wrist Surgery, 4th Edition, expertly covers the essential procedures you are mostly likely to employ in everyday practice. This well-regarded, atlas-style volume provides an efficient review of the scope of hand surgery, including every potential patient scenario, while updated indications and techniques equip you to treat the full range of upper extremity disorders. Enhanced procedural videos, produced and narrated by Dr. Chung himself, help guide the essence and key aspects of an operation and are included in most chapters.

• Combines brief bulleted descriptions of surgical procedures with excellent procedural videos, full-color intraoperative photographs, and detailed surgical diagrams. Radiographs and MR images show presenting problems and post-surgical outcomes.
• Features all-new videos and extensive new content and images throughout.
• Covers key topics such as tissue transplantation, tendon and nerve transfer for spinal cord injury, wide awake approach for tendon transfers, total wrist arthroplasty, and techniques for fixing Bennett and Rolando fractures.
• Features tips, pearls, and pitfalls from the authors that enable you to improve your technique and optimize outcomes.
• Presents multiple approaches for the surgical repair of each disorder, ranging from the least to the most invasive procedures.

Contents

۱. Anesthesia of the hand
۲. Fasciotomy for compartment syndrome of the hand and forearm
۳. Digit amputations
۳. Finger amputations
۴. Proximal upper extremity amputations
۵. Finger infections (paronychia, felons, pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis)
۶. Splints and orthoses
۷. Principles of bone fixation and healing
۸. Kirschner wire fixation of mallet fractures
۹. Techniques for fixing extraarticular phalangeal fractures
۹. Treatment of extraarticular phalangeal fractures
۱۰. Dynamic external fixation of fracture-dislocation of the proximal interphalangeal joint
۱۱. Open reduction and internal fixation of intraarticular phalangeal fractures
۱۲. Volar plate arthroplasty of the proximal interphalangeal joint
۱۳. Hemi-hamate arthroplasty
۱۴. Techniques and fixation of metacarpal fractures
۱۵. Open reduction for metacarpophalangeal joint dislocation
۱۶. Corrective osteotomy of metacarpal fracture malunion
۱۷. Reconstruction of acute and chronic ulnar collateral ligament injuries of the thumb
۱۸. Techniques for fixing bennett and rolando fractures
۱۸. Techniques for fixation of bennett and rolando fractures
۱۹. Wrist arthroscopy
۲۰. Repairing tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex

More…

۱۰۰. Step-cut fractional lengthening of flexor tendons and flexor digitorum superficialis to flexor digitorum profundus transfer
۱۰۱. Flexor-pronator slide
۱۰۲. Thumb adductor release
۱۰۳. Capsulotomy for proximal interphalangeal contracture
۱۰۴. Capsulotomy for metacarpophalangeal contracture
۱۰۵. Pediatric trigger digits
۱۰۶. Release of finger syndactyly using dorsal rectangular flap
۱۰۷. Duplicated thumb and finger treatment
۱۰۸. Index pollicization for hypoplastic thumb
۱۰۹. Pediatric opponensplasty
۱۱۰. Camptodactyly correction
۱۱۱. Macrodactyly correction
۱۱۲. Release of constriction ring syndrome
۱۱۳. Centralization for radial longitudinal deficiency
۱۱۴. Cleft hand reconstruction
۱۱۵. Arthrogryposis reconstruction
۱۱۶. Hand masses
۱۱۷. Excision of vascular lesions of the hand
۱۱۸. Excision of metacarpal enchondroma
۱۱۸. Excision of enchondroma
۱۱۹. Excision of peripheral nerve schwannoma
۱۲۰. Excision of malignant skin tumors