This book is in fact an encyclopedia of osseous traumatology. The fractures are gathered by chapter (shoulder, wrist, radius, femoral collar, fractures trochantériennes…). Practically, all the most frequent fractures are described there with their classifications, the therapeutic assessment and the various preserving and surgical treatments. The indications and the techniques are described with the reinforcement of drawings and photographs. Of small tables with “surviving the night” describes the complications for which it is necessary to pay attention because that involves a treatment in urgency. Other tables describe Tip and Tricks extremely useful to facilitate the treatment. Moreover of the chapters specific problems such as syndromes of the cabins, badly-union treat, geriatric surgery, are analyzed.

Many videos describing surgical operation are available on the website and accessible by a code which makes it possible to supplement information on the treatment of the fractures. This book will interest all the surgeons taking charges traumatology with it and who will find in this book what to look further into their knowledge or to plan an intervention that they have less the practice to make.

Alain G. Graftiaux

Strasbourg

France