Acute Elbow Trauma, 1st ed. 2019
Fractures and Dislocation Injuries
Strategies in Fracture Treatments Series

This volume focuses on acute trauma to the adult elbow, including fractures, dislocations, tendon ruptures, and vascular and nerve injuries. Each chapter addresses anatomical key features, surgical and conservative therapeutic procedures, postoperative regimes and complication strategies. International elbow experts explore a range of surgical approaches, the usage of modern implants, advances in surgical techniques, and pearls and pitfalls for each trauma entity. Moreover, the authors describe total elbow arthroplasty and radial head replacement in detail, outline current clinical outcomes, and provide recommendations for therapeutic approaches and salvage measures. The book enables the orthopedic surgeon to deal with the entire spectrum of acute simple and complex elbow injuries in adults.

Part I. Simple elbow dislocations.- Part II. posteromedial rotatory instability.- Part III. Distal humerus fractures.- Part IV. Proximal ulna fractures.- Part V. Radial head fractures.- Part VI. Monteggia fractures.- part VII. Terrible triad injuries.- Part VIII. Distal biceps tendon rupture.- Part IX. Distal triceps tendon rupture.- Part X. Vascular injury.- Part XI. Nerve injury.

Peter Biberthaler, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon who studied medicine in the highly respected medical school in Munich. He was trained as an orthopedic surgeon at the University hospital Munich and passed the board exam for surgery 2003. He worked as a senior residence and consultant for trauma surgery and orthopedic surgery from 2004 until 2011. In this period, he developed his favor for the therapy of multiple injured patients as well as highly complex joint fractures. In this respect he developed several innovative surgical techniques and teached these technologies to a broad community of trauma and orthopedic surgeons. Hence, it seemed very likely that the Technical University of Munich decided to announce him as a director of the new introduced Department of trauma surgery at the Klinikum rechts der Isar. In this position as a full professor for trauma and orthopedic surgery, he developed this newly started department within a few years into one of the most successful locations for the therapy of complex trauma cases. Due to his high academic activity and his continuous teaching attitude he carried this knowledge within many ARTOF seminars lectures hands-on workshops and instructional courses far over the frontiers of Germany into the whole world. Actually, in his department patients are treated from all over the world especially in the situation of highly complex joint fractures. 

Expands knowledge on severe trauma

Presents surgical and conservative therapeutic procedures

Illustrates perspectives on modern implants and complication strategies