Fractures of the Acetabulum

Emile Letournel

ISBN 10: 3540521895 / ISBN 13: 9783540521891

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 1993, 1993

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the request of our publishers, I accepted the task of preparing this second edition. I felt this was necessary for several reasons: new imaging technologies such as CT scanning and 3-D reconstructions are now used routinely, the in dications for employing improved approaches are clearer, and reconstructions are facilitated by new internal fixation devices. Above all, I thought it was time to report the long-term results of the 940 acetabular fractures, 90070 of which were treated surgically - a unique series. In spite of the experience acquired from the three previous reviews of cases (1966, 1971, and 1978), I failed to foresee the amount of time this revision would need. In fact, it took more than 3 years to follow up the larger number of cases, and 159 patients (out of 800, i. e. 22. 7%) were not included as they had moved since their last review and simply could not be located. At a time when it is in fashion to evaluate the cost of health care, it is strange to see how public administrators, so keen on evaluating the immediate cost of our opera tions, do not care about the quality of their long-term results, which appears to us, however, to be the best basis for the choice of the initial treatment. 760 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fractures of the Acetabulum
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540521895
• ISBN 13: 9783540521891
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 276W x 198H x 46D millimeters 276 millimeters width by 198 millimeters height by 46 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1844 grams

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Synopsis

At the request of our publishers, I accepted the task of preparing this second edition. I felt this was necessary for several reasons: new imaging technologies such as CT scanning and 3-D reconstructions are now used routinely, the in­ dications for employing improved approaches are clearer, and reconstructions are facilitated by new internal fixation devices. Above all, I thought it was time to report the long-term results of the 940 acetabular fractures, 90070 of which were treated surgically - a unique series. In spite of the experience acquired from the three previous reviews of cases (1966, 1971, and 1978), I failed to foresee the amount of time this revision would need. In fact, it took more than 3 years to follow up the larger number of cases, and 159 patients (out of 800, i. e. 22. 7%) were not included as they had moved since their last review and simply could not be located. At a time when it is in fashion to evaluate the cost of health care, it is strange to see how public administrators, so keen on evaluating the immediate cost of our opera­ tions, do not care about the quality of their long-term results, which appears to us, however, to be the best basis for the choice of the initial treatment.

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)