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Portals and Basic Arthroscopic Technique to Reduce Risk of Nerve Injury

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The technique of elbow arthroscopy has been well developed in the past decades and the indications for this technique expand rapidly. Appropriate portal design is a prerequisite for performing elbow arthroscopic procedure and there are number of basic techniques to prevent complications during surgery, especially nerve injury.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Dr Shawn O’Driscoll of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA for his teaching. The principle and surgical technique of elbow arthroscopy that I described in this chapter is straightly learned from him.

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  1. Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Lu, J.Z., Xue, M.Q. (2021). Portals and Basic Arthroscopic Technique to Reduce Risk of Nerve Injury. In: Lui, T.H. (eds) Arthroscopy and Endoscopy of the Hand, Wrist and Elbow. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4142-8_16

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