Fractures of the Acetabulum

Emile Letournel

• 25 februari 1993
• 9783540521891

Samenvatting:

At a time when it is in fashion to evaluate the cost of health care, it is strange to see how public administrators, so keen on evaluating the immediate cost of our opera­ tions, do not care about the quality of their long-term results, which appears to us, however, to be the best basis for the choice of the initial treatment.



This second edition of "Fractures of the Acetabulum" has been greatly expanded from the first, with comprehensive coverage of two and three dimensional CT scanning, many new details on surgical approaches and techniques, and a full analysis of the results of surgical treatment. It was written to help orthopaedic and trauma surgeons understand and treat acetabular fractures. Starting from a perfect anatomical understanding of each fracture, readers are shown in detail how to choose the most appropriate treatment and the best approach for each. The possible surgical complications, especially ectopic bone formation, and the ways to prevent and deal with them are fully covered. A method of reading both plain radiographs and CT scans is explained, and a self-training chapter on the interpretation of radiographs completes the book.