The 5th Edition of the world's most comprehensive operative hand surgery reference pairs the tradition of print with the advances of technology in a continuously updated multimedia e-dition - a state-of-the art website featuring the entire book online with continuous updates to reflect important new advances in the field and more! A new team of international contributors, carefully selected for their particular expertise and ability to offer broad perspectives in a given subject area, describes a complete range of open and arthroscopic techniques. They discuss their preferred surgical methods · patient selection · pre-operative evaluation · decision making · expected outcomes · and special instrumentation. A companion CD-ROM enables readers to link directly from bibliographical citations to corresponding MEDLINE abstracts and other sources.

Part I
1. General Principles
2. Anesthesia
Part II HAND
3. Acute Infections of the Hand
4. Chronic Infections
5. Dupuytren's Contracture
6. Extensor Tendon Injury
7. Flexor Tendon Injury
· Acute Injuries
· Flexor Tendon Reconstruction
8. Fractures of the Metacarpals and Phalanges
9. Dislocations and Ligamentous Injuries of the Digit

10. Nails and Nail Bed
11. The Stiff Finger
12. Thumb Basal Joint Arthritis
Part III WRIST
13. Arthrodesis (Partial and Complete)
14. Carpal Instability
15. Distal Radioulnar Joint
16. Distal Radius Fractures
17. Fractures of the Carpal Bones
18. Wrist Arthroscopy: Anatomy and Diagnosis
19. Wrist Arthroscopy: Operative Procedure
Part IV ELBOW AND FOREARM
Trauma and Fractures
20. Distal Humerus Fractures
21. Radial Head Fractures
22. Fractures of the Proximal Ulna
23. Acute Dislocations and Complex Acute Instability
24. Recurrent Instability of the Elbow
Other Disorders
25. The Stiff Elbow
26. Arthroscopy and the Thrower's Elbow
27. Arthroplasty
Part V NERVE
28. Compressive Neuropathies
29. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
30. Repairs and Grafting
31. Radial Nerve Palsy
32. Median Nerve Palsy
33. Ulnar Nerve Palsy
34. Cerebral Palsy
35. Strokes and Brain Injury
36. Tetraplegia
37. Pediatric Brachial Plexus Palsy
38. Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury
Part VI CONGENITAL DISORDERS
39. Embryology of the Upper Extremity
40. Deformities of the Hand and Fingers
41. Deformities of the Thumb
42. Deformities of the Wrist and Forearm
43. The Clapsed Thumb
Part VII BONE AND SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION
44. Principles of Microvascular Surgery
45. Replantation
46. The Mangled Upper Extremity
47. Skin Grafts and Flaps
48. Free Skin and Composite Flaps
49. Free Functioning Muscle Flaps
50. Vascularized Bone Grafts
51. Vascularized Joint Transfers
52. Toe to Hand Transfer
53. Thumb Reconstruction
54. Distraction Lengthening in the Hand and Upper Extremity
Part VIII OTHER DISORDERS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY
55. Amputation
56. Compartment Syndrome
57. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
58. Factitious Disorders
59. Rheumatoid Arthritis
60. Tenosynovitis
61. Thermal and Chemical Injury
62. Skin Tumors
63. Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone
64. Vascular Disorders

By David P. Green, MD, Hand Center of San Antonio Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; Robert N. Hotchkiss, MD, Associate Attending, Chief of Hand Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery; Director, Alberto Vilar Center for Research of the Hand and Upper Extremity, New York, NY; William C. Pederson, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and Scott W. Wolfe, MD, Chief of Hand Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA