Publisher's Synopsis
The 5th Edition of the world's most comprehensive operative hand surgery reference pairs the tradition of print with the advances of technology in a continuously updated multimedia e-dition - a state-of-the art website featuring the entire book online with continuous updates to reflect important new advances in the field and more! A new team of international contributors, carefully selected for their particular expertise and ability to offer broad perspectives in a given subject area, describes a complete range of open and arthroscopic techniques. They discuss their preferred surgical methods À patient selection À pre-operative evaluation À decision making À expected outcomes À and special instrumentation. A companion CD-ROM enables readers to link directly from bibliographical citations to corresponding MEDLINE abstracts and other sources.