Lawton Jeffrey N. Distal Radius Fractures. A Clinical Casebook

Springer, 2016. — 259 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-27487-4.I am especially proud of this assembled work Distal Radius Fractures: A Clinical Casebook. Along with my notable coauthors, we were able to micro-dissect the clinical care of distal radius fractures and go far beyond what is commonly seen in their presentations and other textbooks. The inspiration for this work was based upon a number of Instructional Course Lectures and the now increasingly tired mantra that I use with our Residents and Fellows in Hand Surgery that in order to take care of patients with distal radius fractures, one must be facile with a number of different treatment alternatives.
In decades gone by, surgeons could treat distal radius fractures with a dorsal plate or with an external fi xator and feel that that was the appropriate way to address distal radius fractures and that could be their one or two go-to methods of treatment. However, with the explosion of different modalities to treat distal radius fractures — most notably including the volar locking plate, there has been a trend toward treatment of all distal radius fractures with a single “one size fits all” method of treatment. Unfortunately, this has resulted in insufficient or inappropriate treatment of a number of patients with distal radius fractures. The goal of this clinical compendium is to highlight a number of different facets of treatment of distal radius fractures with chapters each designed around a clinical case to demonstrate a different component of a distal radius fracture, reviewing the literature, and then getting back to that clinical case and how it was treated and then, as appropriate, to review some clinical pearls. Toward the end of the book, a specific review of some common complications is seen associated with distal radius fractures that were reviewed as well.
I am quite proud of the work we have assembled representing some of the finest centers and the thought-leaders of hand care throughout America. I believe the team of authors that this represents has made a substantial contribution to the clinical care of distal radius fractures, and I appreciate the signifi cant amount of work that all of my colleagues have put into this collected effort. I would also like to acknowledge the work of my editors, Kristopher Spring and Brian Halm at Springer, USA, for helping me to put this collection together. Finally, I would like to acknowledge Nancy Phillips, my administrative assistant at the University of Michigan, who has helped me to organize, transcribe, collate, complete, and just generally produce this fine work that you see before you.