Main description:

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine - Knee Surgery Vol.2: Bone and Cartilage provides orthopaedic surgeons with a collection of step by step surgical techniques for correcting bone and cartilage 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:

Arthroscopic debridement of arthritic knee
Arthroscopic fixation of distal detachment of ACL
Arthroscopic treatment of tibial plateau fracture
Trochlea osteotomy (Albee procedure) for patellar instability
Repair of cartilage defects using osteochondral allograft
Repair of cartilage defects using scaffold
Repair of cartilage defects with microfracture surgery
Repair of cartilage defects with mosaicplasty
Distal femoral medial closing wedge osteotomy
Distal femoral opening wedge osteotomy
Excision of knee exostosis
Extra-articular graft for osteochondritis dissecans
Fixation of osteochondritis dissecans
High tibial closing wedge osteotomy
High tibial opening wedge osteotomy
Lateral approach for distal femoral fracture reduction and fixation
Medial approach for distal femoral fracture reduction and fixation
Open fixation of tibial plateau fracture
Open reduction and internal fixation of patella fractures
Surgery for Osgood Schlatter disease
Surgery for patella infera (baja)
Proximal tibial tubercle transfer (surgery for patella alta)
Distal tibial tubercle transfer for patellar instability