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This volume recovers the current treatment for the fractures in the child. It is about a bulky book of reference.
The first part treats basic principles but also characteristics in the child: immature skeleton, cartilage of growth, syndrome of the compartments, and signs of ill-treatment.
The second part relates to the traumatology of the limbs and of the spine.
Various chapters touching the various types of fractures (epicondylar, fracture of Monteggia…) all are organized in the same way, but with quite practical insertions of tables and a rich iconography insertion of tables and a rich iconography.
Tables show the indications and contraindications as well nonoperative treatments as surgical with their advantages and disadvantages. The important points of the procedures are also gathered in table as well as the risks and their treatments.
The algorithms are an invaluable help explaining thus point by point the diagnostic and therapeutic advance. The preferred techniques of the author are presented at the end of the chapter before bibliography.
An access to Internet is provided making it possible to have access to complementary operational videos.
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Graftiaux, A. John M. Flynn, David L. Skaggs, Peter M. Waters (eds): Rockwood and Wilkin’s fractures in children. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 25, 1231 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-015-1690-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-015-1690-6