Small Fragment Set Manual

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction and Objectives

   1. Introduction and Objektives

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 1-2

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3. General Section

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. Implants and Instruments of the SFS

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 5-26

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   3. General Techniques of Internal Fixation Using the SFS

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 27-49

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   4. Pre-operative, Operative and Postoperative Guidelines

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 51-52

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   5. Removal of Implants

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 53-54

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   6. Autogenous Bone Graft Combined with the Use of the SFS

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 55-56

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   7. Use of the SFS for Reconstructive Operations

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 57-62

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4. Special Section

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Introduction and Overview

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 65-65

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   3. The Shoulder Girdle

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 67-82

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   4. The Elbow

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 83-117

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   5. The Shafts of the Forearm Bones

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 119-127

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   6. The Wrist Joint

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 129-161

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   7. The Hand

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 163-229

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   8. The Knee Joint

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 231-249

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   9. The Shaft of the Tibia

      • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

      Pages 251-252

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   10. The Ankle Joint

       • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

       Pages 253-331

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   11. The Foot

       • Urs Heim, Karl Martin Pfeiffer

       Pages 333-367

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The rapid development in the surgical treatment of fractures during the past 9 years has necessitated considerable modifications to the first edition of this book. Numerous new implants and instruments are presented in this, the second edition. In 4.0-, 3.5- and 2.7-mm screws the hexagonal socket has definitively superseded the Phillips head, while mini-implants have been modified and a 1.5-mm screw introduced. A number of new plates and implants have been introduced and have long since proved their value. At the same time new techniques, described here, have been developed and applied. The tension-band wire is included, despite the fact that it does not consist of specific AO implants, and use of the Kirschner wire is also illustrated and emphasized whenever the authors consider that this simple method is still the best available. Alterations in the organization of the book have been necessary: the shoulder, the forearm and the knee are treated in separate chapters, and other sections have been extended. With regard to clinical-radiological examples, new typical situations are described and documented. The case studies from the first edition have been recontrolled in all instances in which it was feasible to do so. In this way many valuable late results, 9-12 years after internal fixation, were obtained. We found that almost all joints had remained stable after healing of an articular fracture; so-called late arthrosis is rare in the peripheral skeleton.

• Instrument
• Osteosynthese
• fixation
• fracture
• implant
• knee
• shoulder
• Trauma Surgery

• Muri/BE, Switzerland

  Urs Heim

• Kantonsspital, Chirurgische Universitätspoliklinik, Basel, Switzerland

  Karl Martin Pfeiffer

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