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This textbook offers new insights into the use of computer assisted surgery and minimally invasive surgery in orthopaedic surgery. A comprehensive presentation of scientific work and clinical experience is included encompassing areas of spine, trauma, sports and reconstructive surgery. We have added sections that discuss minimally invasive surgery, as we believe CAS will be an enabling technology for these more challenging approaches by providing a virtual digital "surgical exposure". Finally, we have explored areas of new endeavor that may not have current applications. We believe that this textbook will be attractive to those new to this area as well as providing an update for existing users.
List of contents
From the contents I) Computer Assited Orthopaedic Surgery.- II) TKA.- IIA) Navigation: TKA.- IIB) Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS): TKA.- IIC) MIS and Navigation in TKA.- IID) Navigation and MIS in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (UKA).- III) ACL Reconstruction.- IV) Total Hip Arthroplasty.- IVA) Navigation: THA.- IVB) Minimally Invasive Surgery: THA.- IVC) Navigation and MIS: THA.- V) Reconstruction and Trauma Surgery.- VI) Spinal Surgery.- VII) Future Perspectives in CAOS.
Summary
The reader is enthusiastically encouraged to tackle this second edition text in two ways. The first is simply to scan chapters with their introductions, summaries and conclusion points. Second, is to delve into those sections of seeming greater interest depending upon one’s s- cialty and role. The expansion and quality of this material speak to the success of the first edition by these editors and many similar authors. In addition, the continued and enlarged interest in computer assisted Orthopedic surgery indicates the relevance and enduring importance of this advance in our field of musculoskeletal surgery. I suggest that no other discipline in surgery is so appropriately suited to computer assistance including robotic performance. Orthopedics has always seemed unique to this author in that it focuses more than any other medical field on gross physical, mechanical structure. We deal nearly exclusively in physical repair of broken elements, rearrangement of deformed ones, and resurfacing or refurbishing those that are diseased in a way that has altered their mechanical integrity, shapes, and other structural aspects.
