The Basic Principles of External Skeletal Fixation

This is the third edition of a well-received book that reflects the state of the art in External Skeletal Fixation Using the Ilizarov and Other Devices. The unique feature of this book is its combination of Ilizarov, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen/Orthopedic Trauma Association (AO/OTA), and Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery (LLRS) principles, which will allow it to meet the needs of a broader community. Thus, its goal is to provide orthopedic surgeons at all levels, from zero to master level, of training and experience with a tabletop guide offering comprehensive information on the use of external fixation and combined techniques to treat patients with injuries, the consequences of fractures, and orthopedic pathologies.

List of contents

Chapter 1. External Fixation Basic Concepts: Introduction.- Chapter 2. Short Historical Background.- Chapter 3. External Fixation Main Terminology.- Chapter 4. Spectrum of External Fixation.- Chapter 5. Basic Science of Fracture Healing.- Chapter 6. Basic Science of Distraction Osteogenesis.- Chapter 7. Features of distraction osteogenesis in combined and sequential use of external fixation and nailing.- Chapter 8. Comprehensive designation of external fixation.- Chapter 9. Biomechanical principles of external fixation: bone components.- Chapter 10. Biomechanical principles of external fixation: bone fragment reduction.- Chapter 11. Biomechanical principles of external fixation: bone fragment fixation.- Chapter 12. Biomechanical principles of external fixation: mutual contradictions.- Chapter 13. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: principles for development and usage.- Chapter 14. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: upper arm.- Chapter 15. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: ulna.- Chapter 16. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: radius.- Chapter 17. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: femur.- Chapter 18. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: lower leg.- Chapter 19. Atlas of safe zones and optimal positions: foot.- Chapter 20. Atlas of safe zones: pelvis.- Chapter 21. Equipment and Instruments for Tubular Frame Construction.- Chapter 22. Techniques used for tubular frame construction.- Chapter 23. Equipment and instruments for ring frame construction.- Chapter 24. Techniques used in the ring frame mounting.- Chapter 25. Bases of preoperative preparation and X-ray examination.- Chapter 26. Postsurgical Management.- Chapter 27. Complications and Solutions.- Chapter 28. External Fixation for Acute Trauma: Introduction.- Chapter 29. External fixation assisted nailing and plating in fractures treatment.- Chapter 30. External fixation assisted nailing in periprostetic femoral fractures.- Chapter 31. Principles of tubular frames construction and mounting.- Chapter 32. Tubular frame for temporary fixation: long bones.- Chapter 33. Tubular frames for temporary fixation: large joints and pelvis.- Chapter 34. Principles of ring frames for temporary fixation construction and mounting.- Chapter 35. Ring frame for temporary fixation: long bones.- Chapter 36. Ring frame for temporary fixation: large joints and pelvis.- Chapter 37. Transition from temporary external fixation to definitive internal or external fixation in fractures.- Chapter 38. Principles of classic ring frame construction for fracture reduction and definitive fixation.- Chapter 39. Principles of MT-based ring frame construction for fractures reduction and definitive fixation.- Chapter 40. Mounting principles of ring frames for reduction and definitive fixation of fractures.- Chapter 41. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: upper arm.- Chapter 42. Ring fixator for definitive fractures fixation: forearm.- Chapter 43. External fixation in hand injury.- Chapter 44. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: femur, general data.- Chapter 45. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: proximal femur fractures.- Chapter 46. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: femur shaft fractures.- Chapter 47. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: Femur distal part.- Chapter 48. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: tibia and fibula, general data.- Chapter 49. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: tibia and fibula proximal part.- Chapter 50. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: tibia and fibula shaft.- Chapter 51. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: tibia and fibula distal part.- Chapter 52. Ring fixator for definitive fracture fixation: foot.- Chapter 53. External fixation for open fractures and severe soft tissue injuries: general principles.- Chapter 54. Acute shortening and artificial deformity creation in treatment of fractures with large soft tissue defect.- Chapter 55. Open Fracture Management Using Ilizarov Apparatus Combined with Flap Surgery.- Chapter 56. External fixation in children and adolescents at acute trauma.- Chapter 57. External Fixation in deformity correction: Introduction.- Chapter 58. Lower limb Reference Lines and Angles.- Chapter 59. X-ray analysis: Is there a deformation or not?.- Chapter 60. Basics of planning long bone deformity correction.- Chapter 61. Peculiarities of lower limb deformity correction planning - frontal plane.- Chapter 62. Peculiarities of lower limb deformity correction planning in sagittal plane.- Chapter 63. Oblique, bi-planar, torsion, and multi-apex deformities: features of correction planning.- Chapter 64. Upper arm and forearm deformities correction planning consideration.- Chapter 65. Unified reduction units for acute and gradual deformity correction.- Chapter 66. External fixation assisted nailing/plating in acute deformity correction.- Chapter 67. Principles of ring frame construction for long bones deformity correction and definitive fixation.- Chapter 68. Principles of ring frame mounting for deformity correction and definitive fixation.- Chapter 69. Features of the ring frame for deformity correction: Femur.- Chapter 70. Features of frame construction for the deformity correction: Lower leg.- Chapter 71. Features of frame construction for the deformity correction: Upper arm.- Chapter 72. Humeral deformity correction and lengthening.- Chapter 73. Features of frame construction for the deformity correction: Forearm.- Chapter 74. Lengthening over the nail and along the plate.- Chapter 75. Sequential external fixation and nailing/plating in deformity correction.- Chapter 76. Conventional Ilizarov and integrated techniques vs. internal distractors in deformity correction and bone transport.- Chapter 77. Aesthetic Correction of the Lower Extremities: General Information.- Chapter 78. Shape of the Legs Correction.- Chapter 79. Aesthetic limb lengthening.- Chapter 80. External fixation in spinal deformities surgery.- Chapter 81. External fixation in pelvic post-traumatic deformities.- Chapter 82. Considerations for hand lengthening and deformity correction.- Chapter 83. Phalangeal and Metacarpal Lengthening and Then Plating technique.- Chapter 84. Foot deformity correction: general principles.- Chapter 85. Midfoot and hindfoot deformity correction planning.- Chapter 86. Midfoot and hindfoot deformity correction with Ilizarov hinges.- Chapter 87. Ankle, midfoot and hindfoot deformity correction using foot joints fusion.- Chapter 88. External Fixation for Charcot Neuroarthropathy of the Foot and Ankle.- Chapter 89. Non-unions and defects: Introduction.- Chapter 90. Universal Long Bone Nonunion Classification.- Chapter 91. Universal Long Bone Defect Classification.- Chapter 92. External fixation in long bone non-unions.- Chapter 93. Cross-wire bone transport: frame construction principles.- Chapter 94. Cross-wire bone transport: frame mounting principles.- Chapter 95. Oblique-wire and cable bone transport: frame construction principles.- Chapter 96. Oblique-wire and cable bone transport: frame mounting principles.- Chapter 97. Splint and transverse fibula bone transport.- Chapter 98. Bone transport over the nail and along the plate.- Chapter 99. Combined strained fixation in long bone defect treatment.- Chapter 100. External fixation in knee joint bone defects: Introduction.- Chapter 101. Knee joint fusion.- Chapter 102. Reconstructions in knee joint bone defects.- Chapter 103. Reconstructions in long bone tumor treatment.- Chapter 104. Lower limb deformity correction in children and adolescents: general data.- Chapter 105. Posttraumatic Deformities in Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 106. External Fixation and Integrated Techniques in the Treatment of Blount's Disease.- Chapter 107. Multiple Osteochondromatosis Disease: Treatment with external fixation.- Chapter 108. Enchondromatosis Disease: Treatment with external fixation.- Chapter 109. Radial club hand.- Chapter 110. Congenital Pseudarthrosis of the Tibia.- Chapter 111. Treatment of Congenital Femoral Deficiency.- Chapter 112. Fibular Hemimelia.- Chapter 113. Reconstruction surgery for achondroplasia.- Chapter 114. Hip reconstruction in the treatment of developmental hip dysplasia.- Chapter 115. External fixation in large joint pathology: Introduction.- Chapter 116. Principles of ring frame construction for large joint pathology.- Chapter 117. Principles of ring frame for large joint pathology mounting.- Chapter 118. Hip distraction.- Chapter 119. Ilizarov Pelvic Support Osteotomy.- Chapter 120. Femur Lowering Before Hip Replacement.- Chapter 121. Hip pre-prosthetic and periprosthetic deformities.- Chapter 122. Hip arthroplasty after Ilizarov Pelvic Support Osteotomy.- Chapter 123. Hip fusion.- Chapter 124. Osteotomies around the knee.- Chapter 125. Intra-articular corrective osteotomies combined with the Ilizarov technique for the treatment of deformities of the knee.- Chapter 126. Knee pre-prosthetic and peri-prosthetic deformities - Implications for Arthroplasty.- Chapter 127. External fixation in knee joint contracture treatment.- Chapter 128. Ankle & Subtalar Joint Distraction Arthroplasty, and Supramalleolar osteotomy.- Chapter 129. External fixation in elbow and wrist pathology.- Chapter 130. Orthopedic hexapods: principles, history, and indications.- Chapter 131. Ortho-SUV Frame hardware.- Chapter 132. Ortho-SUV Frame software.- Chapter 133. Ortho-SUV Frame in long bone deformity correction.- Chapter 134. Ortho-SUV Frame hex: "spring technique" in multi-apex deformity correction.- Chapter 135. Ortho-SUV Frame in midfoot and hindfoot deformity correction.- Chapter 136. Orthopedic hexapod in knee joint stiffness and dislocations treatment.- Chapter 137. Orthopedic hexapod in ankle joint stiffness and dislocations treatment.- Chapter 138. Hex-base lengthening over the nail and bone transport over the nail.

Summary

This is the third edition of a well-received book that reflects the state of the art in External Skeletal Fixation Using the Ilizarov and Other Devices. The unique feature of this book is its combination of Ilizarov, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen/Orthopedic Trauma Association (AO/OTA), and Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery (LLRS) principles, which will allow it to meet the needs of a broader community. Thus, its goal is to provide orthopedic surgeons at all levels, from “zero” to master level, of training and experience with a tabletop guide offering comprehensive information on the use of external fixation and combined techniques to treat patients with injuries, the consequences of fractures, and orthopedic pathologies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Leonid Solomin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.07.2025
• EAN: 9783031910173
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3191017-3
• No. of pages: 1300
• Illustrations: Approx. 1300 p. 810 illus., 800 illus. in color. With online files/update.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Chirurgie, Pädiatrie, Rehabilitation, Zellbiologie (Zytologie), non-union, Klinische und Innere Medizin, Surgery, Pediatrics, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Orthopaedics, infectious diseases, Cell Biology, AO Principles, Distraction osteogenesis, Ilizarov principles, Atlas of wires and pins insertion, Open fractures, Bone loss, bone defects, Deformity correction, Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery, Infected fractures, Damage control