Long description:

Comprehensive and fully up to date, the six-volume Plastic Surgery remains the gold standard text in this complex area of surgery. Completely revised to meet the demands of both the trainee and experienced surgeon, Hand and Upper Extremity, Volume 6 of Plastic Surgery, 5th Edition, features new, full-color clinical photos, procedural videos, lectures, and authoritative coverage of hot topics in the field. Editor-narrated video presentations offer a step-by-step audio-visual walkthrough of techniques and procedures.

• New chapters cover nerve transfers, aesthetics, and pain management; coverage throughout includes new, pioneering translational work shaping the future of hand and upper extremity surgery. 

• New digital video preface by Dr. Peter C. Neligan addresses the changes across all six volumes. 

• New treatment and decision-making algorithms added to chapters where applicable. 

• New video lectures and editor-narrated slide presentations offer a step-by-step audiovisual walkthrough of techniques and procedures.  

• Evidence-based advice from an expanded roster of international experts allows you to apply the very latest advances in hand and upper extremity plastic surgery and ensure optimal outcomes. 

• Purchase this volume individually or own the entire set, with the ability to search across all six volumes online! 

• 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. 

Table of Contents:

Plastic surgery contributions to hand surgery
1 Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Hand
1 Examination of the Upper Extremity
1 Treatment of the Upper Extremity Amputee
1 The Fingertip, Nail Plate and Nail Bed: Anatomy, Repair and Reconstruction
1 Infections of the Hand
1 Intro
1 Introduction: Plastic Surgery Contributions to Hand Surgery
1 Peripheral Nerve Repair and Reconstruction
1 Embryology, Classification, and Principles of the Management of Congenital Hand Disorders
1 Anatomy and biomechanics of the hand
1 The Ischemic Hand
2 Anesthesia for Upper Extremity Surgery
2 Hand Fractures and Joint Injuries
2 The Spastic Hand
2 Diagnostic Imaging of the Hand and Wrist
2 Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Hand
2 Brachial Plexus Injuries: Adult and Pediatric
2 Examination of the upper extremity
2 Whole Limb Upper Extremity Malformations
2 Upper Extremity Composite Allotransplantation
3 Principles of Internal Fixation as Applied to the Hand and Wrist
3 Fractures and Dislocations of the Wrist and Distal Radius
3 The Stiff Hand
3 Aesthetic Surgery of the Hand
3 Malformations with Abnormal Axis Differentiation Affecting the Hand Plate
3 Diagnostic imaging of the hand and wrist
3 Management of Dupuytren's Disease
3 Restoration of Upper Extremity Function in Tetraplegia
4 Extensor Tendon Injuries
4 Tendon Transfer for Reconstruction of the Wrist and Hand
4 Malformations with Abnormal Axis Differentiation Affecting the Hand Plate: Unspecified Axis
4 The Painful Hand
4 Anesthesia for upper extremity surgery
4 Osteoarthritis in the Hand and Wrist
4 Hand Therapy
5 Hand Deformations and Dysplasias
5 Replantation and Revascularization
5 Rheumatologic Conditions of the Hand and Wrist
5 Nerve Transfers
5 Principles of internal fixation
6 Reconstructive Surgery of the Mutilated Hand
6 Occupational Hand Disorders
6 Free-functioning Muscle Transfer in the Upper Extremity
6 Nail and fingertip reconstruction
6 Congenital Hand Dysplasias: Tumorous Conditions
7 Congenital Hand Dyplasias: Congenital Contractures
7 Thumb Reconstruction: Non-microsurgical Techniques
7 Hand fractures and joint injuries
7 Nerve Entrapment Syndromes
8 Thumb Reconstruction: Microsurgical Techniques
8 Fractures and dislocations of the wrist and distal radius
8 Growth Considerations in the Pediatric Upper Extremity
9 Flexor tendon injuries and reconstruction
10 Extensor tendon injuries
11 Replantation
12 Reconstructive surgery of the mutilated hand
13 Thumb reconstruction: non microsurgical techniques
14 Thumb reconstruction: microsurgical techniques
15 Infections of the hand
16 Tumors of the hand
17 Dupuytren's disease
18 Osteoarthritis in the hand and wrist
19 Rheumatologic conditions in the hand and wrist
20 Occupational hand disorders
21 Nerve entrapment syndromes
22 Peripheral nerve repair and reconstruction
23 Brachial plexus injuries: Adult and pediatric
24 Tetraplegia
25 Tendon transfers
26 Nerve transfers
27 Free functioning muscle transfer
28 The ischemic hand
29 The spastic hand
30 The Stiff Hand: Prevention and Treatment
31 The Painful hand
32 Congenital hand 1: Embryology, classification and principles
33 Congenital hand 2: Malformations - Whole Limb
34 Congenital hand 3: Malformations - Abnormal Axis differentiation - Hand plate
35 Congenital hand 4: Malformations - Abnormal Axis differentiation - Hand plate - unspecified axis
36 Congenital hand 5: Deformations & Dysplasias
37 Congenital Hand 6: Dysplasias - Tumorous conditions
38 Congenital hand 7: Dysplasias - Congenital contractures
39 Growth considerations in the pediatric upper extremity
40 Treatment of the upper extremity amputee
41 Upper extremity composite allotransplantation
42 Aesthetic surgery for the hand
43 Hand therapy