Description
The Knee a volume in the new Arthritis and Arthroplasty series offers expert guidance on everything from patient selection and pre-operative planning to surgical approaches and techniques. Clear, evidence-based coverage details which technology and methodology used for total knee arthroplasty (TKA), reconstruction or revision is best for each patient. Access discussions of debates on sizing and balancing, minimally invasive surgery, component removal, management of bone loss and ligament insufficiency in revision TKA, infection, peirprosthetic fractures and more. Explore alternatives to TKA in younger arthritic patients and view expertly narrated video demonstrations of surgical techniques. In addition to providing practical, pragmatic advice in a concise, readable format, this Expert Consult title offers the full text of the book, as well as links to PubMed and periodic content updates, online at expertconsult.com.

Key Features

Access the full text of the book as well as links to PubMed and periodic content updates on outcome data, component materials, and surgical techniques online at expertconsult.com.
Features procedural videos narrated by experts on the included DVD so you can see how to perform particular techniques.
Covers arthroscopic debridement, patellofemoral maltracking and other hot topics to keep you abreast of the latest developments in the specialty.
Provides evidence-based, clinically focused guidance on patient selection, pre-operative planning, surgical approach and techniques, bearing surfaces and component materials, disease specific options, the management and avoidance of complications, salvage and revision TKA strategies, and more.
Discusses variations in technique, bearing options and design components; including minimally invasive TKA, fixed versus mobile-bearing TKA, and posterior stabilized (PS) versus cruciate retaining knee designs so you can choose which is most effective for each patient.
Explores alternatives to TKA in younger arthritic patients, including arthroscopy, cartilage repair and replacement,, distal femoral arthroplasty and unicompartmental arthroplasty.
Includes a review page in every chapter for quick reference to pearls and pitfalls for each topic.
Presents photographs and interpretive drawings of surgical techniques in full color to bring out intraoperative details as they appear in the operating room.
Table of Contents

Part 1: Surgical Treatment of the Arthritic Knee: Alternatives to TKA

Chapter 1. Arthroscopic Debridement of the Arthritic Knee: Is There Still A Role?, S. Raymond Golish and David R. Diduch
Chapter 2. Cartilage Repair and Replacement: From OATS to Allograft, Matthew T. Provencher, Christopher B. Dewing, Sam Akhavan, Anthony Miniaci. Allison G. McNickle, Adam B. Yanke, and Brian J. Cole
Chapter 3. Distal Femoral Osteotomy for Genu Valgum, Matthew j. Phillips and Leslie Murli Manohar
Chapter 4. Principles of Correction for Monocompartmental Arthritis of the Knee, Dror Paley
Chapter 5. Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty, V. Karthik Jonna andAlfred J. Tria, Jr.
Chapter 6. Patellofemoral Arthroplasty, Kevin J. Mulhall and Diarmuid Molony
Part 2: Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty

Chapter 7. Surgical Approaches for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: Old and New, Stephen R. Thompson and Vincent D. Pellegrini, Jr
Chapter 8. Soft Tissue Balancing During Total Knee Arthroplasty, William M. Mihalko, Kyle J. Messick, Kenneth A. Krackow, and Leo A. Whiteside
Chapter 9. Sizing and Balancing: Gap Technique vs. Measured Resection, Michael N. Kang and Giles R. Scuderi
Chapter 10. PCL retaining TKA, KA Hogan, TS Thornhill
Chapter 11. Posterior Stabilized TKA , Christopher W. Olcott
Chapter 12. Mobile Bearing TKA, Joseph T. Moskal and Vincent J Williams
Chapter 13. Intra-operative Complications during TKA: How to Get Out of Trouble, Lowery Barnes and Richard Scott
Chapter 14. Minimally Invasive Total Knee Arthroplasty, Peter M. Bonutti, Mike S. McGrath, David R. Marker, Ronald E. Delanois, Slif D. Ulrich, and Michael A. Mont
Part 3: Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: The Basics

Chapter 15. Evaluation of the Painful/Failed TKA, Patrick Morgan and Terence J Gioe
Chapter 16. Soft Tissue Issues: Exposure and Coverage, William J. Long and Fred D. Cushner
Chapter 17. Surgical Exposure in Total Knee Arthroplasty, Leo A. Whiteside
Chapter 18. Removal of Well Fixed Components during Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty, Jason Oliviero, William M. Mihalko, Quanjun Cui, Sean M. Jones-Quaidoo, Leo A. Whiteside, and James Rand, and Khaled J. Saleh
Chapter 19. Balancing the Revision TKA: Restraint with Constraint, Kelly G. Vince, Martin Bedard, and Ed Ebramzadeh
Chapter 20. Management of Bone Loss: Structural Grafts in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty, Oleg Safir, Allan E. Gross, and David Backstein
Chapter 21. Addressing Ligament Deficiency in Revision TKA, Peter F. Sharkey and Omar Abdul-Hadi
Chapter 22. Adjunctive Fixation in TKA Revision: Stems and Sleeves, Bryan D. Springer
Chapter 23. Revision TKA Utilizing Mobile Bearing Technology, Jon E. Minter
Chapter 24. Patellar Revision/ Reconstruction, Gregory K. Deirmengian and Craig L. Israelite
Part 4: Total Knee Complications and Potential Solutions

Chapter 25. The Infected Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty, William M. Mihalko, Abhijit Manaswi, Thomas Brown, Quanjun Cui, and Khaled J. Saleh
Chapter 26. Patellofemoral Maltracking: Identification and Solutions, Karen J. Boselli, Gwo-Chin Lee, and Jonathan P. Garino
Chapter 27. Extensor Mechanism Rupture, Carl A. Deirmengian and Jess H. Lonner
Chapter 28. The Stiff Total Knee Arthroplasty: Evaluation and Treatment, Gwo-Chin Lee and Norman A. Johanson
Chapter 29. Periprosthetic Fractures about Total Knee Replacements: Repair or Revise, Mohammed A. Khadder, Amir A. Jamali, and Paul E. Di Cesare
Chapter 30. Limb Salvage for Failed TKA: Arthrodesis and Beyond, David McQueen