Mastering Orthopedic Techniques: Knee Reconstruction

Part of the highly successful Mastering Orthopedic Techniques series, this book is a comprehensive guide to knee reconstruction.

Beginning with an overview of diagnostic arthroscopy and MRI in sports injuries, each of the following sections discusses surgical procedures for different types of injury or disorder. Topics are presented in a step by step, ?how to? approach, covering both basic and more complex issues.

Edited by recognised authorities in the field, this practical manual is enhanced by nearly 600 images, diagrams and tables. Other titles in the series include: Intra-articular Fractures, Spine Surgery, Total Hip Arthroscopy, and Total Knee Arthroscopy.

Key Points

• Comprehensive, step by step guide to knee reconstruction, covering basic and complex issues
• Provides overview of diagnostic arthroscopy and MRI in sports injuries
• Part of the highly successful Mastering Orthopedic Techniques series
• Highly illustrated with nearly 600 images, diagrams and tables

1. Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee
2. MRI in Sports Injuries of Knee
3. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries. Who Needs Reconstruction?
4. Anatomic Single Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament
5. 1.       Reconstruction with Hamstrings using Variable Length Looped Button Device
6. Transtibial Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
7. Anatomic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: The Double-Bundle Technique
8. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in the Skeletally Immature Patient
9. Combined Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
10. Arthroscopic Single Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Hamstrings Graft
11. Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Single-Bundle Tibial Inlay Technique
12. Posterolateral Corner Reconstruction
13. Posterolateral Corner Reconstruction: Modified Larson Technique
14. Posteromedial Corner Reconstruction
15. Reconstruction of Medial Collateral Ligament and Associated Medial Knee Stabilizers
16. Surgical Management of Multiple Ligament Knee Injury
17. Decision Making in Meniscus Tear
18. Outside-in Meniscal Repair
19. Inside-out Meniscal Repair
20. Meniscal Repair Using the All-inside Technique
21. Arthroscopic Meniscectomy
22. Arthroscopic Synovectomy
23. Patello-femoral Joint: Anatomy and Biomechanics
24. Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction
25. Trochleoplasty in Patellar Dislocation
26. Patellofemoral Arthritis
27. Osteochondral Defect: An Overview of Management and Guide to Decision Making
28. Osteochondral Autograft Transfer
29. Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation
30. Tibial Spine Fractures
31. Arthroscopic Assisted Tibial Plateau Fracture Fixation
32. Arthroscopic Decompression of Baker’s Cyst
33. Osteotomies around Knee and Computer-assisted Surgery
34. High Tibial Osteotomy in Ligament Deficient Knees
35. Post-traumatic Stiff Knee
36. Rehabilitation Protocol for Soft Tissue Reconstruction of Knee
37. Outcome Measures of Knee

Rajesh Malhotra MBBS MS FRCS FACS FIMSA FICS MNASc
Professor of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sunil Apsingi MS
Joint Director Orthopaedics, Head of Arthroscopy and Sports Injuries, Consultant Arthroplasty and Trauma Surgeon, Max Cure Hospitals, Hitech City, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Krishna Kiran Eachempati MS
Director Orthopaedics, Maxcure Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Deepak Gautam MBBS MS
Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India