Main description:

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine - Knee Surgery Vol.1: Soft Tissue provides orthopaedic surgeons with a collection of step by step surgical techniques for correcting soft tissue injuries of the knee commonly encountered in sports and orthopaedic trauma.

Each chapter explains how to perform a single surgical procedure in its entirety, from diagnosis, preparation, surgical technique to closure and rehabilitation, while also detailing pre and post-operative complications and how best to avoid them.

The practical, easy to use format makes this book an invaluable resource for all surgeons involved with treating orthopaedic and sports trauma injuries of the knee.

EFOST - easy to reference surgical techniques written in a simple stepwise format
Easy to follow 'cook book' chapter style
Easy to navigate content allows rapid review of techniques
Large number of high quality colour photographs
Written by highly experienced orthopaedic and sports trauma surgeons

Contents:

Reconstruction of ACL using bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft
Reconstruction of ACL using hamstring autograft
Reconstruction of ACL using iliotibial band autograft
Reconstruction of ACL using quadriceps tendon autograft
Reconstruction of ACL without foreign materials: bone dowel method
Reconstruction of ACL with open physes
Extra-articular lateral tenodesis for ACL deficient knee
Reconstruction of the posterolateral corner
Reconstruction of PCL using a single bundle graft
Arthroscopic resection of the medial meniscus
Arthroscopic treatment of a meniscal cyst
Arthroscopic plasty of the discoid meniscus
Arthroscopic meniscal repair: 'all-inside' method
Reconstruction of MPFL using hamstring tendon autograft
Reconstruction of MPFL with quadriceps tendon autograft
Repair of acute quadriceps tendon rupture
Surgery for patellar tendonitis: 'jumper's knee'
Complete arthroscopic synovectomy
Dynamic reconstruction of MPFL with hamstring tendon autograft