Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach Fifth Edition

Your Guide to Orthopaedic Anatomy: A Surgeon's Point of View

This highly regarded text provides a clear, surgeon’s-point of view of orthopaedic anatomy, using easy-to-follow descriptions accompanied by hundreds of superb, full-color illustrations. The state-of-the-art fifth edition, selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2021, brings you up to date with recent changes in the field, using a highly relevant anatomic approach that has become increasingly important as approaches become smaller.

Key Features

• Detailed Surgical Approaches: Each chapter details the techniques and pitfalls of a surgical approach, gives a clear preview of anatomical landmarks and incisions, and highlights potential dangers of superficial and deep dissection.
• Procedural Videos: Seventeen high-quality procedural videos provide over an hour of surgeries from every relevant angle, including a split screen with diagrams.
• Updated Coverage: Updates of existing surgical approaches include expanded approaches for emergency decompression of a compartment syndrome of the lower leg and forearm, as well as the addition of a classic approach to fixation of distal radial fractures.
• New Coverage: Includes new coverage of the posterior and postero-lateral approaches to the tibial plateau, surgical dislocation of the hip, a minimally invasive anterior approach to the hip joint, and the lateral approach to the metatarso phalangeal joint of the hallux.
• Enhanced eBook: The bundled interactive eBook edition can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes a variety of enhanced features.