Minimally Invasive Shoulder and Elbow Surgery PDF

Preface

The management of shoulder and elbow pathology has changed more dramatically over the last decade than many other disciplines in medicine owing to the innovation of minimally invasive surgery. This spectrum of techniques has swept through orthopedic surgery, allowing surgeons to identify, manage, and treat their patients without requiring the large open incisions that could lead to postoperative difficulties. Fewer complications, shorter recovery periods, and the overall ease of treatment have all contributed to the success of these techniques.

This book was designed to provide the reader with the latest approaches in minimally invasive surgery as it applies to the shoulder and elbow. Our contributors are well-respected world leaders at the cutting edge of these procedures and its technology.

Minimally invasive shoulder surgery is covered in detail. This book discusses the basic setup and diagnostic arthroscopy before explaining, step by step, a multitude of procedures, including acromioplasty, distal clavicle resection, instability repair, glenoid debridement, and the treatment of cysts and inflammation, and provides a multi-chapter, in-depth look at rotator cuff repair.

Minimally invasive elbow surgery is also given detailed attention with several chapters devoted to both straightforward procedures, such as diagnostic arthroscopy and tennis elbow debridement, and procedures that only the most experienced arthroscopists should attempt, including managing cubital tunnel syndrome with arthroscopic medial epicondylectomy.

It is our hope that this book is embraced by the orthopedic surgery community as the definitive "how-to" guide on minimally invasive approaches to the shoulder and elbow.