- Contains 250 up-to-date chapters that guide you through all important musculoskeletal trauma and sports medicine entities, including postoperative imaging for foot and ankle surgery, injuries to core muscles, and peripheral nerve injuries as they relate to specific musculoskeletal injuries/trauma
- Presents the advantages and disadvantages of specific imaging techniques-ultrasound, CT, MR, radiography, and nuclear medicine-for diagnoses, including new imaging guidelines such as the use of 3T MR vs. MR arthrography
- Explores topics specific to pediatric patients, including dedicated chapters on child abuse and growth plate (physis) injuries
- Covers new musculoskeletal consensus papers regarding imaging recommendations, new criteria for diagnoses, and new terminology
- Features new discussions of “ramp lesions” (injuries that occur at the margin of the medial meniscus); rotator cuff anatomy and tears; and evolution of arthroscopy techniques to allow better assessment of these injuries in the operating room
- Features more than 7,100 high-quality images (3,700+ in print with an additional 3,400+ images in the complimentary eBook), including radiology images, full-color illustrations, clinical photographs, and intraoperative and arthroscopic images
- Uses succinct bulleted text and highly templated chapters for quick comprehension of essential information at the point of care
- Includes a complimentary eBook that allows you access to everything in the print version as well as additional images, text, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Table of Contents
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTIONOVERVIEW
TRAUMATIC INJURY, SPECIAL TOPICS
SECTION 2: SHOULDER AND HUMERUS
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
BONES AND JOINTS
MUSCLES AND TENDONS
Shoulder Girdle
Rotator Cuff
Proximal Biceps Tendon
CAPSULE AND LABRUM
Instability and Labrum
Superior Labrum
Combined Cuff and Labrum Lesions
OTHER
SECTION 3: ELBOW
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
BONES AND JOINTS
LIGAMENTS
TENDONS
OTHER
SECTION 4: WRIST AND HAND
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
BONES AND JOINTS
Distal Radius and Ulna
Wrist
Hand
LIGAMENTS
Wrist
Hand
TENDONS
OTHER
SECTION 5: HIP AND PELVIS
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
BONES AND JOINTS
Hip and Proximal Femur
Pelvis
Postoperative Imaging
LABRUM AND INTRAARTICULAR STRUCTURES
MUSCLES AND TENDONS
OTHER
SECTION 6: KNEE
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
BONES AND JOINTS
LIGAMENTS
MENISCI
TENDONS
OTHER
SECTION 7: ANKLE AND FOOT
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
BONES AND JOINTS
LIGAMENTS
MUSCLES AND TENDONS
OTHER
POSTOPERATIVE

