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Fractures of the hand and wrist
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The Wrist Edinburgh
(G. E. M. Monograph)
Ed J. P. Razemon
and G. R. Fisk.
Churchill
Livingstone.
1988
ISBN 0-443-03124-X
272 pages
Price f70.00
For Hand Surgeons, the 1980’s belong to the Wrist. This complex of joints holds the attention of clinicians and researchers as more and more is understood about its pathology and surgical repair. Churchill Livingstone published Julio Taleisniks’ magnum opus on the subject in 1985 and now produce this ‘Monograph’ with the same name. The two volumes are different in concept and execution. Taleisnik presents an encyclopaedic and ordered view of his own and others’ work on the articulations of the wrist, whilst the GEM monograph is more wide ranging and comes in the form of thirty-seven chapters (some original papers) from fifty-one authors. Such a collection inevitably loses some coherence and presents personal views at the cost of overall perspective, but where so many of those views are from leaders in their field much is gained. ‘The Wrist’ deals with periarticular and articular disease (unlike its predecessor) and, coming
Fractures of the Hand and Wrist ISBN O-443-03366-8
352 pages
Edited
from the Groupe d’Etude de la Main. over half the contributors are French, providing a useful introduction to the Gallic literature for English surgeons. Disappointingly it is mostly a translation of 1983’s ‘Le Poignet’, and less than half the chapters reference work later than 1982. Some more recent developments have escaped detailed attention, such as particulate synovitis, TFCC disease, arthroscopy and the debate surrounding limited carpal fusion. (Rheumatoid wrist disease has deliberately been deferred to a later volume in this series.) The layout is good and illustrations are clear and well reproduced but do not always coincide with the text. The index is useful and most contributions are well referenced. On balance it complements its publishers earlier production and will interest all serious hand surgeons. SIMOh- KAY FRCS
by N. J. Barton.
Churchill
Livingstone,
Edinburgh
1988
Price f.60.00
This book is the fourth of a series of books on the Hand and Upper Limb. Previous volumes on the Interphalangeal Joints, The Paralysed Hand and Unsatisfactory Results in Hand Surgery, all with different editors, have already been published. A further 6 volumes are in preparation, again with different editors. In this volume, there is a foreword by Guy Pulvertaft and 34 authors have contributed to 25 chapters. The book covers the management of hand and wrist
fractures comprehensively but does not cover dislocations or ligament injuries where these are not associated with fractures. These are presumably discussed in a separate volume. There are separate chapters on conservative and operative management of the more common fractures. all of which are discussed in some detail, including treatment with external fixators. A most welcome aspect of the book is the chapters on the less common injuries, such as those involving epiphyses particularly
64
BOOK REVIEWS
Overall, this is an excellent and comprehensive volume on the subject and it would be difficult to think of a fracture and its complications which had not been discussed in at least one of the sections. The book is clearly not intended for the undergraduate student, but it is a good reference book for those who already have some knowledge of hand and wrist fractures, and even those who profess to have a clear understanding of the subject will find much of interest and useful references at the end of each chapter. R.F. BROWNFRCS(E~)
those of the distal phalanx, fractures associated with joints and soft tissue injuries as well as pathological fractures, all of which are given prominence equal to that of the more common injuries. There is a good section on rehabilitation near the end of the book and, in case the reader has gained too much confidence having read the first 318 pages, Mr. Barton himself has written a chapter on complications as a reminder that, although no treatment is 100% successful, most bad results can be avoided by taking some care. This book should certainly help in that regard.
Arthroscopy of the Knee
V. Chassaing
and J. Parier.
Translation
by Reginald
Elson. Martin Duntiz
Ltd, London ISBN O-948269-23-5
142 pages
Price f35.00
This book was a pleasure to review. In spite of the text having been translated from French the authors’ extensive experience and authority in this rapidly developing area of medical technology is still evident. The book is logically arranged with the early chapters being concerned with apparatus, preparation of the patient and portals of entry, the middle chapters with normal and pathological anatomy and the final chapters concerned with complications and failures of
The 1987 Yearbook of Orthopaedics Publishers
RAYMONDJ.NEWMANBSCDP~~~FRCS
Edited by Mark B. Coventry,
MD, MS. Year Book Medical
Inc., New York
ISBN 0-8151-1891-O
ISSN 0276-1092
323 pages
Price f35.50
Dr. Coventry and thirty-three colleagues have reviewed 250 papers selected from 50 medical journals with a common orthopaedic denominator. This 1987 Year Book represents material up to January, 1986. There are 12 sections covering paediatrics, adult fractures, the hip, the knee, the back and neck, the shoulder arm and elbow, the forearm wrist and hand, the ankle and foot, tumours, infections, sports, and miscellaneous topics. Each article is precised and generally followed by a second opinion. It is not overpriced at Z35.50 for 300 action-packed pages. Being divided into readily accessible categories this
Practical Orthopaedic Exposures ISBN O-443-02972-5
Many lished clarity rightly
the technique. Interestingly the final chapter lists the information which should be given to the patient preoperatively. This authoritative manual is succinctly written and lavishly illustrated and should be considered essential reading for any orthopaedic surgeon intending to embark upon a training in arthroscopic surgery.
168 pages
Ronald McRae.
book does provide the ready reference that all orthopaedic surgeons need. Imagine trying to perform this impossible task on one’s own. Furthermore this reviewer only had to go as far as page 22 and had already developed a guilty conscience about an important paper that he had missed. All orthopaedic surgeons should have access to this material via the library, and those that are involved with teaching programmes should probably have their own personal copy.
Churchill
Livingstone,
Edinburgh
1987
Price E45.00
atlases of surgical exposures have been pubin recent years but none can match the beauty, and detail of this volume. The author has, quite I feel, reduced the text to an absolute minimum
and has described the various extensile exposures using a multitude of line diagrams and well prepared colour illustrations. Clearly the book has been written by a practical surgeon and not a theoretician.
~~
The Wrist Edinburgh
(G. E. M. Monograph)
Ed J. P. Razemon
and G. R. Fisk.
Churchill
Livingstone.
1988
ISBN 0-443-03124-X
272 pages
Price f70.00
For Hand Surgeons, the 1980’s belong to the Wrist. This complex of joints holds the attention of clinicians and researchers as more and more is understood about its pathology and surgical repair. Churchill Livingstone published Julio Taleisniks’ magnum opus on the subject in 1985 and now produce this ‘Monograph’ with the same name. The two volumes are different in concept and execution. Taleisnik presents an encyclopaedic and ordered view of his own and others’ work on the articulations of the wrist, whilst the GEM monograph is more wide ranging and comes in the form of thirty-seven chapters (some original papers) from fifty-one authors. Such a collection inevitably loses some coherence and presents personal views at the cost of overall perspective, but where so many of those views are from leaders in their field much is gained. ‘The Wrist’ deals with periarticular and articular disease (unlike its predecessor) and, coming
Fractures of the Hand and Wrist ISBN O-443-03366-8
352 pages
Edited
from the Groupe d’Etude de la Main. over half the contributors are French, providing a useful introduction to the Gallic literature for English surgeons. Disappointingly it is mostly a translation of 1983’s ‘Le Poignet’, and less than half the chapters reference work later than 1982. Some more recent developments have escaped detailed attention, such as particulate synovitis, TFCC disease, arthroscopy and the debate surrounding limited carpal fusion. (Rheumatoid wrist disease has deliberately been deferred to a later volume in this series.) The layout is good and illustrations are clear and well reproduced but do not always coincide with the text. The index is useful and most contributions are well referenced. On balance it complements its publishers earlier production and will interest all serious hand surgeons. SIMOh- KAY FRCS
by N. J. Barton.
Churchill
Livingstone,
Edinburgh
1988
Price f.60.00
This book is the fourth of a series of books on the Hand and Upper Limb. Previous volumes on the Interphalangeal Joints, The Paralysed Hand and Unsatisfactory Results in Hand Surgery, all with different editors, have already been published. A further 6 volumes are in preparation, again with different editors. In this volume, there is a foreword by Guy Pulvertaft and 34 authors have contributed to 25 chapters. The book covers the management of hand and wrist
fractures comprehensively but does not cover dislocations or ligament injuries where these are not associated with fractures. These are presumably discussed in a separate volume. There are separate chapters on conservative and operative management of the more common fractures. all of which are discussed in some detail, including treatment with external fixators. A most welcome aspect of the book is the chapters on the less common injuries, such as those involving epiphyses particularly
64
BOOK REVIEWS
Overall, this is an excellent and comprehensive volume on the subject and it would be difficult to think of a fracture and its complications which had not been discussed in at least one of the sections. The book is clearly not intended for the undergraduate student, but it is a good reference book for those who already have some knowledge of hand and wrist fractures, and even those who profess to have a clear understanding of the subject will find much of interest and useful references at the end of each chapter. R.F. BROWNFRCS(E~)
those of the distal phalanx, fractures associated with joints and soft tissue injuries as well as pathological fractures, all of which are given prominence equal to that of the more common injuries. There is a good section on rehabilitation near the end of the book and, in case the reader has gained too much confidence having read the first 318 pages, Mr. Barton himself has written a chapter on complications as a reminder that, although no treatment is 100% successful, most bad results can be avoided by taking some care. This book should certainly help in that regard.
Arthroscopy of the Knee
V. Chassaing
and J. Parier.
Translation
by Reginald
Elson. Martin Duntiz
Ltd, London ISBN O-948269-23-5
142 pages
Price f35.00
This book was a pleasure to review. In spite of the text having been translated from French the authors’ extensive experience and authority in this rapidly developing area of medical technology is still evident. The book is logically arranged with the early chapters being concerned with apparatus, preparation of the patient and portals of entry, the middle chapters with normal and pathological anatomy and the final chapters concerned with complications and failures of
The 1987 Yearbook of Orthopaedics Publishers
RAYMONDJ.NEWMANBSCDP~~~FRCS
Edited by Mark B. Coventry,
MD, MS. Year Book Medical
Inc., New York
ISBN 0-8151-1891-O
ISSN 0276-1092
323 pages
Price f35.50
Dr. Coventry and thirty-three colleagues have reviewed 250 papers selected from 50 medical journals with a common orthopaedic denominator. This 1987 Year Book represents material up to January, 1986. There are 12 sections covering paediatrics, adult fractures, the hip, the knee, the back and neck, the shoulder arm and elbow, the forearm wrist and hand, the ankle and foot, tumours, infections, sports, and miscellaneous topics. Each article is precised and generally followed by a second opinion. It is not overpriced at Z35.50 for 300 action-packed pages. Being divided into readily accessible categories this
Practical Orthopaedic Exposures ISBN O-443-02972-5
Many lished clarity rightly
the technique. Interestingly the final chapter lists the information which should be given to the patient preoperatively. This authoritative manual is succinctly written and lavishly illustrated and should be considered essential reading for any orthopaedic surgeon intending to embark upon a training in arthroscopic surgery.
168 pages
Ronald McRae.
book does provide the ready reference that all orthopaedic surgeons need. Imagine trying to perform this impossible task on one’s own. Furthermore this reviewer only had to go as far as page 22 and had already developed a guilty conscience about an important paper that he had missed. All orthopaedic surgeons should have access to this material via the library, and those that are involved with teaching programmes should probably have their own personal copy.
Churchill
Livingstone,
Edinburgh
1987
Price E45.00
atlases of surgical exposures have been pubin recent years but none can match the beauty, and detail of this volume. The author has, quite I feel, reduced the text to an absolute minimum
and has described the various extensile exposures using a multitude of line diagrams and well prepared colour illustrations. Clearly the book has been written by a practical surgeon and not a theoretician.