cover image - Current Practice in Hand Surgery, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443109720
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 04-10-2025
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $283.99

Current Practice in Hand Surgery, 1st Edition

by Jin Bo Tang, MD, David Elliot and Roy Meals

Hardcover

cover image - Current Practice in Hand Surgery, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443109720
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 04-10-2025
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $283.99

$283.99

Free Shipping!
In Stock
Offering authoritative advice, technical tips, and personal approaches from renowned experts in hand surgery worldwide, Current Practice in Hand Surgery is a uniquely global, practical resource to help guide clinical practice. In print and on video, key opinion leaders in the field cover everything from infection, compartment syndrome, and joint stiffness to hand fractures and dislocation to reconstruction and replantation of hands and digits—including particularly challenging disorders and future research directions.
    • Contains the collective opinions and recommendations from teams of active, leading experts and investigators in hand surgery worldwide, resulting in an unmatched volume of today’s wisdom in this complex field
    • Shares individual authors’ unique surgical techniques and outcomes—both in print and on video
    • Covers key topics such as arthroscopic wrist surgery, primary flexor tendon repair, nerve repair and reconstruction, flap coverage for the hand and upper extremity, management of the mutilated hand, congenital hand disorders, connective tissue diseases, tumors of the hand and upper extremity, neuropathic pain, improving hand function after cerebral palsy, stroke, or brain damage, and more
    • Provides extensive visual guidance through clinical and operative photos, radiographs, and illustrations
    • Suitable for all levels of readership, the text includes a variety of rich content types, from Boxes summarizing key points, to In-Depth Advice based on career-long experience, to In-Depth Analysis providing cutting-edge insights, making it a go-to resource for clinicians of any level
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
  • PART I General Hand Surgery Approaches
    1. Modern Clinical Settings and Approaches
    2. Infection, Compartment Syndrome, and Joint Stiffness

    PART II Fractures and Dislocations
    3. Hand Fractures and Dislocations
    4. Late Problems after Bone and Joint Trauma
    5. Distal Radius Fractures
    6. Fractures of the Elbow and Forearm

    PART III Wrist and Distal Radioulnar Joint
    7. Evolution and Current Methods of Arthroscopic Wrist Surgery
    8. Acute Scaphoid Fractures
    9. Scaphoid Nonunion or Malunion and Wrist Arthritis: Unsolved Problems
    10. Carpal Instability: Current Techniques
    11. Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability
    12. Treatment of Kienböck Disease: A Major Unsolved Problem
    13. Carpal Dislocations
    14. Other Carpal Fractures and Carpal Disorders

    PART IV Tendons and Nerves
    15. Primary Flexor Tendon Repair
    16. Secondary Flexor Tendon Surgery
    17. Extensor Tendon Repair and Reconstruction
    18. Entrapment Neuropathies of the Upper Extremity: Current Practice
    19. Nerve Repair and Reconstruction: Updated Methods
    20. Traumatic Adult Pan-Brachial Plexus Injuries: Current Methods and Variations
    21. Tendon Transfers After Nerve Injuries to the Arm and Forearm

    PART V Soft-Tissue Coverage and Microsurgery
    22. Soft-Tissue Cover of the Thumb and Fingers
    23. Flap Coverage for the Hand and Upper Extremity
    24. Replantation of Digits and Hands: Current Indications and Dealing with Difficult Patients
    25. Reconstruction of the Hand and Digits
    26. Management of a Mutilated Hand

    PART VI Other Difficult Disorders
    27. Dupuytren Disease
    28. Trapeziometacarpal Osteoarthritis: Current Approaches and Unsolved Problems
    29. Congenital Hand Disorders: Differences in Strategies and Treatment
    30. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Tendinopathies, and Other Connective Tissue Diseases
    31. Chronic Vascular Disorders of the Hand
    32. Enhancing Hand Control in Tetraplegia
    33. Improving Hand Function after Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, or Brain Damage
    34. Tumors of the Hand and Upper Extremity
    35. Neuropathic Pain of the Upper Extremity
    36. Topics With Major Uncertainties, Including Birth Palsy and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
  • Jin Bo Tang, MD, Communications Director, International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand Scientific Advisor and Former Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume); Professor of Surgery, Founding Chair, Department of Hand Surgery, The Hand Surgery Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China; Professor of Surgery (Adjunct), The Alpert Medical, School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, David Elliot and Roy Meals

$283.99

Free Shipping!
In Stock