Acute Elbow Trauma

This volume focuses on acute trauma to the adult elbow including fractures, dislocations, tendon ruptures, and vascular and nerve injuries. Each chapter addresses anatomical key features, surgical and conservative therapeutic procedures, postoperative regimes and complication strategies. International elbow experts give the readers information about surgical approaches, the usage of modern implants, advances in surgical techniques, and pearls and pitfalls for each trauma entity. Moreover, total elbow arthroplasty and radial head replacement are described in detail, current clinical outcomes are confronted, and the authors recommend their preferred therapeutic approach and salvage measures if required. This book is a specific manual that enables the orthopedic surgeon to deal with the total spectrum of acute simple and complex elbow injuries in adults.