Day: October 23, 2014

Editors: Marc Garcia-Elias, and Christophe L. Mathoulin Publisher: Thieme – 167 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This unique book – with a lot of images and well-organized materials including brief introductions, summaries, conclusions, and references in its chapters – is focused on complex intra-articular wrist injuries that are not extensively covered in other texts.  It provides a reasonably good picture of their clinical, radiographic and therapeutic features. It is an important one for all physicians and surgeons who encounter these challenging cases. Forty-eight physicians and surgeons, including a variety of specialists in orthopedics and plastic surgery, authored or...

Editor-in-Chief: Rick A. Friedman, MD Associate Editors: William H. Slattery III, MD, Derald E. Brackmann, MD, Jose N. Fayad, MD, and Marc S. Schwartz, MD Illustrator: Mark M. Miller Publisher: Thieme – 201 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani A lot of the material for this outstanding book with excellent sketches, would not have been discovered, evolved, developed, and made available today were it not for the work of three medical-surgical pioneers. The House Clinic of Los Angeles, founded by Drs. Howard and William House and William Hitselberger in the 1930s is one of the richest sources of knowledge...

Authors: Simone Waldt, MD, and Klaus Woertler, MD. With contributions by Matthias Eiber Publisher: Thieme – 214 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Orthopedics is a medical specialty that requires of practitioners to remember a bewildering number and variety of measurement techniques, classification systems, scoring methods, and reference values, the editors write in their Preface. The techniques of measurement, the systems of classification, the methods of scoring, and the myriad values are so numerous that radiologists, orthopedists, and trauma surgeons just cannot commit all that information and knowledge into their memories The problem these physicians had faced was that...

Editors: Robert F. Heary, MD, and Todd J. Albert, MD Publisher: Thieme – 241 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This well-illustrated book, written by leading experts in spine surgery, presents to you an overview of present-day key foundational principles on this subject, and the practices followed in diagnosing and treating patients with deformities of the spine. It has been written for orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, residents, and fellows in this medical specialty. You will find in each chapter a numbered list that provides you the topics that are covered in the chapter. This serves as a quick overview of...