Skeletal Trauma: Fractures, Dislocations, Ligamentous Injuries (2-Volume Set) [Hardcover]

Bruce Browner (Author), Jesse Jupiter (Author), Alan Levine (Author), Peter Trafton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0721691757 | ISBN-13: 978-0721691756 | Edition: 3

The 3rd Edition of this 2-volume comprehensive work provides expert coverage of today's most contemporary approaches to the management of fractures and other injuries. Internationally recognized specialists offer extensive coverage of both internal and external fixation and the basic anatomy and mechanisms of injury integrated with diagnosis, management, follow-up, and complications. New content encompasses trauma reconstruction, malunions, nonunions, infections, limb length discrepancies, and related problems.

• Features expanded discussions of closed management, as well as coverage of trauma reconstruction for injuries that fail to heal properly after their first treatment.
  
• Includes revised coverage of acute foot injuries.
  
• Offers four brand-new chapters: Diagnosis and Treatment of Nonunions; Reconstructive Total Hip Replacement after Proximal Femoral Injuries; Foot Injury Reconstruction; and Principles of Deformity Correction.

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About the Author

Bruce D. Browner, MD, FACS, Gray-Gossling Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT; Director, Department of Orthopaedics, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT; Jesse B. Jupiter, MD, Director, Orthopaedic Hand Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Alan M. Levine, MD, Associate Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery; Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Oncology, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Consultant in Spinal Injury, Maryland Shock Trauma Unit, Baltimore, MD; and Peter G. Trafton, MD, FACS, Professor/Vice Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brown University School of Medicine; Surgeon-in-Charge, Orthopaedic Trauma, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2768 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 3 edition (December 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0721691757
• ISBN-13: 978-0721691756
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.9 x 4.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 17.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,575,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent reference for trauma, November 27, 2007

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This review is from: Skeletal Trauma: Fractures, Dislocations, Ligamentous Injuries (2-Volume Set) (Hardcover)

A complete trauma textbook a must have, this or Rockwood`s, in every orthopaedic surgeons library