Distal Radius Fractures

Edited and authored by leading international experts, Distal Radius Fractures: Evidence-Based Management provides a state-of-the-art overview of diagnosis and management based on today’s best practices. Each chapter focuses on one key issue, offering a challenging case and then questioning the reader in an engaging fashion to provide the best available evidence on each topic. Practical and easy to read, this innovative text is a useful resource for all residents, physicians and surgeons who manage fractures.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Principles of Evidence-Based Management of Distal Radius Fractures
Chapter 2: Using Evidence to Manage Distal Radius Fractures
Section 2: Anatomy and Biomechanics
Chapter 3: Epidemiology
Chapter 4: Osseous and Ligamentous Anatomy of the Distal Radius
Chapter 5: Biomechanics of DRF
Section 3: Diagnostic Management
Chapter 6: Radiographic Parameters and Classifications
Chapter 7: Role of Advanced Imaging
Section 4: Acute Fracture Management
Chapter 8: Closed reduction of displaced DRF
Chapter 9: Surgical versus conservative interventions for Displaced Distal Radius Fractures
Chapter 10: Predictors of Instability and secondary dislocation of conservatively treated DRF
Chapter 11: Plating versus Percutaneous Kirschner Wires for simple DRF
Chapter 12: Volar plating versus Dorsal plating
Chapter 13: Comminuted articular DRF
Chapter 14: Comminuted metaphyseal DRF
Chapter 15: Bone graft substitutes
Chapter 16: Arthroscopic-assisted treatment of DRF
Chapter 17: Simultaneous Fractures of the Distal Radius and Scaphoid
Chapter 18: Galeazzi Fracture Dislocations
Chapter 19: Essex Lopresti Fracture Dislocations
Chapter 20: Acute DRUJ Instability
Chapter 21: Concomitant ulnar styloid fractures
Chapter 22: Persistent Ulnar Sided pain after DRF
Chapter 23: Association Between Radiological and Patient-Reported Outcomes
Chapter 24: Rehabilitation
Chapter 25: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Section 5: Pediatric Fracture Management
Chapter 26: Pediatric DRF
Chapter 27: Pediatric Forearm Fractures
Section 6: Elderly Fracture Management
Chapter 28: Fracture Fixation in the Elderly
Chapter 29: Prevention of DRF
Section 7: Malunion and Nonunion
Chapter 30: Diagnosing the Malunited Distal Radius
Chapter 31: Treatment of the Extra-articular Malunited Distal Radius
Chapter 32: Treatment of the Intra-articular Malunited Distal Radius
Chapter 33: Corrective Osteotomy of Distal Radius Malunion
Chapter 34: Three-Dimensional Planning and surgical guidance of Malunion Correction
Chapter 35: Nonunion
Section 8: Posttraumatic Arthritis and Complications
Chapter 36: Tendon ruptures after DRF
Chapter 37: Chronic DRUJ Instability
Chapter 38: Posttraumatic DRUJ Arthritis
Chapter 39: Posttraumatic RSL Arthritis
Chapter 40: Wrist contracture

Geert Alexander Buijze, MD PhD, Hand Surgeon, Hand and upper limb surgeon, Clinique Générale d'Annecy, France. Assistant Professor, University Hospital CHU Montpellier, France, Postdoc, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands.; Jesse Jupiter, MD, Hansjoerg Wyss/AO Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department Of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Past President, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, Past President, American Association of Hand Surgery and Michel Chammas, MD, PhD, Professor, Orthopaedic Hand and Upper Extremity Trauma Surgery, University of Montpellier, France