Surgical techniques for the knee

"This book is a concise instructional guide to surgical treatment of common knee injuries. It gives you the essential details of preoperative planning, technique, and postoperative management for more than 55 procedures for sports medicine injuries, adult knee reconstruction, and trauma. Expert contributors describe each technique in a straightforward and succinct fashion using a stepwise approach and easy-to-follow outline format. You will also find hundreds of exquisite graphics highlighting important concepts. Techniques for knee arthroplasty, quadriceps snip, ligament reconstruction, meniscus repair, total knee replacement, opening wedge osteotomy are provided. More than 350 high-quality illustrations demonstrating all operative steps, and Pearls and Pitfalls providing guidance for avoiding complications make this text the ultimate professional resource for orthopedic surgeons and other specialists treating knee injuries. It is also an outstanding review text for fellows, residents and students."--Publisher's website.

The medial parapatellar approach to the knee / Steven F. Harwin -- The subvastus approach / H. Del Schutte, Jr., Matthew McEvoy, and Fred D. Cushner -- The lateral approach in total knee arthroplasty / Peter A. Keblish -- Knee replacement: the midvastus approach / Fletcher A. Reynolds and Fred D. Cushner -- The trivector knee arthrotomy approach / Kenneth W. Bramlet -- Quadriceps snip / Matthew B. Gavin -- Tibial tubercle osteotomy / Wade P. McAlister and Fred D. Cushner -- Modified V-Y quadriceps turndown / Fred D. Cushner -- Autologous cartilage implantation: cartilage biopsy, cartilage implantation / Lars Peterson -- Chondral injuries treated with osteochondral autograft transfer / Elliott H. Leitman and Craig D. Morgan -- Arthroscopic abrasion arthroplasty / Lanny L. Johnson -- Articular cartilage paste grafting / Kevin R. Stone and Ann W. Walgenbach -- Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction / William W. Colman and W. Norman Scott -- Ligament injuries: anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with hamstring tendons / Timothy S. Mologne and Marc J. Friedman -- Ligament injuries: anterior cruciate ligament with quadriceps tendon reconstruction / Walter R. Shelton -- Ligament…