Overview
Key reference in the management of distal radius fractures
Tips and tricks from Scandinavian experts
Illustrations offering step-by-step guidance on surgical technique
Guidance on complications and their treatment
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Table of contents (47 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Leiv M. Hove, MD, Dr. med. sc., is Head of the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Head of the Norwegian Centre for Reconstructive Surgery in Tetraplegia . He is also a Senior Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and is Senior Consultant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Haukeland University Hospital, with quadruple clinical specialities (general surgery, plastic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and hand surgery). His doctoral thesis (1994), Distal Radius Fracture, A study of occurrence, treatment and complications, became a classic. Prof Hove has been a university teacher for more than 30 years, and a professor since 1998. Prof Hove served as President of the Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand for 4 years and also as the Norwegian delegate to the FESSH (Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand). 2010 he became the first Norwegian to be invited to deliver the Erik Moberg Memorial Lecture at the SSSH (Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand) Congress, Sweden. He was jointly responsible for developing a new dynamic external fixator for distal radius fractures (Dynawrist®). Prof Hove is the author of a total of 170 scientific papers, overviews, book chapters, and books.
Tommy Lindau MD, PhD (Hand Surgery) graduated from the University of Lund, Sweden, and later was awarded a Diploma in Orthopaedic Surgery by The Swedish Orthopaedic Association. He has a PhD in Hand Surgery from Lund University 2000. He is currently a Consultant Hand Surgeon and Lead Researcher at The Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby, UK and Assistant Professor at the University of Derby. He is also Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway and was previously Visiting Professor at the University of Perugia, Italy. Mr Lindau served as Vice President of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS) from 2008 to 2010 and as President in 2010-11. Mr Lindau is a peer reviewer for several leading journals, including Acta Radiologica, Journal of Hand Surgery (Br/Eur), Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, and Acta Orthopaedica. He is the author of over 40 publications, including many in peer-reviewed journals.
Per Hølmer studied Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark., He was in 1997 appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedics at Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Denmark after having done a year of fellowship at the reknown Kleinert Institute for Hand & Micro Surgery. Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Dr. Hølmer became in 2003 the Head of the Department of Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Distal Radius Fractures
Book Subtitle: Current Concepts
Editors: Leiv M. Hove, Tommy Lindau, Per Hølmer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54604-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54603-7Published: 08 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51263-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54604-4Published: 14 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 421
Number of Illustrations: 105 b/w illustrations, 147 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgical Orthopedics, Conservative Orthopedics, Traumatic Surgery