Del Piñal Francisco, Mathoulin Christophe, Luchetti Riccardo (eds.) Arthroscopic Management of Distal Radius Fractures

Springer, 2010. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-05353-5.Arthroscopy was introduced to help patients, to make our treatments more reliable, and to have better control of our procedures. It is merely a tool, indeed, but a marvelous one that nobody should underscore among all the surgical options we have when it comes to solving wrist trauma. Seeing is understanding. This could be another leitmotiv for these authors’ campaign to get more hand surgeons to incorporate arthroscopy in their practices. Certainly, mastering these newly developed techniques helps understand the patient’s problems. But again, that statement would also be misleading for not always what we see through the scope is the real cause of dysfunction. The enemy may be outside of the capsular enclosure. Indeed, arthroscopy provides lots of useful information, but the surgeon need not accept biased interpretations of the patient’s problem based only on what appears on the screen.Pre-Operative Assessment in Distal Radius Fractures.
Portals and Methodology.
Management of Simple Articular Fractures.
Treatment of Explosion-Type Distal Radius Fractures.
Management of Distal Radius Fracture-Associated TFCC Lesions Without DRUJ Instability.
Arthroscopic Management of DRUJ Instability Following TFCC Ulnar Tears.
Radial Side Tear of the Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex.
Arthroscopic Management of Scapholunate Dissociation.
Lunotriquetral and Extrinsic ligament lesions Associated with Distal Radius Fractures.
Management of Concomitant Scaphoid Fractures.
Perilunate Dislocations and Fracture Dislocations/Radiocarpal Dislocations and Fracture Dislocations.
The Role of Arthroscopy in Postfracture Stiffness.
Treatment of the Associated Ulnar-Sided Problems.
Arthroscopic-Assisted Osteotomy for Intraarticular Malunion of the Distal Radius.
The Role of Arthroscopic Arthrodesis and Minimal Invasive Surgery in the Salvage of the Arthritic Wrist: Midcarpal Joint.
Arthroscopic Radiocarpal Fusion for Post-Traumatic Radiocarpal Arthrosis.