Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (3rd edition)
Language: English | ISBN-10: 0071387587 | PDF | 704 pages | 12 MB
Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics offers quick access to workup tools for definitive diagnosis and definitive treatment for all common musculoskeletal diseases and disorders in adults and in children. This popular guide is the best practical reference for physicians and other health professionals who care for patients with orthopedic problems.
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics features:
*Surgical management of osteoporosis using techniques such as kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
*The latest on shoulder evaluation
*Advances in the understanding of back pain
*Help in diagnosing hip and knee problems based on the patient’s age at presentation
*More on the new COX-2 inhibitors
*Update on the molecular biology of musculoskeletal tumors
*Guidelines for predicting function
*Ethics, pain management, blood replacement, and treatment and prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism now included in “General Considerations” chapter
*Concise review of the basic science necessary for an understanding of diagnostic and treatment decisions
*Effect of changes in imaging technology on optimal diagnostic studies
*Bone and soft tissue tumor differential diagnosis summarized in comprehensive tables by age, location, and imaging characteristics
*Recent materials for joint replacement, including the new polyethylenes and ceramics
*More than 500 clinical photographs and illustrations
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