Main description:

In todays world, medicine is undergoing constant changes and advances that seek to answer various clinical and increasingly demanding problems. In this sense, it represents a challenge for surgeons for look for innovative, safe and reproducible responses. The authors present in this book a compilation of different topics about osteotomies; types, surgical techniques and potential complications in various areas of modern medicine. Here the reader will find updated plastic surgery, ear, nose and throat surgery, orthopaedic surgery and innovative technological advances that allow and give our patients better functional and aesthetic results.

Contents:

Prologue; Sliding Osteotomy Genioplasty; Open Wedge Osteotomy of Malunited Distal Radius Fractures Through a Palmar Approach; Cuneiform Osteotomy of The Femoral Neck for Treatment of Ossified Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis; Anterior Approach with no Detachment of Rectus Femoris in Bernese Periacetabular Osteotomy for hip dysplasia; Supramalleolar Osteotomies for Ankle Arthritis; The New Bony Scalpel: Piezosurgery(r); Index.