Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Upper extremity -- 1 Fractures of the clavicle -- 1.1 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF MIDSHAFT FRACTURES -- 2 Section I: Fractures of the proximal humerus -- 2.1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 2.2 TENSION BAND WIRING (TBW) FOR DISPLACED GREATER TUBEROSITY FRACTURES -- 2.3 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF 3- AND 4-PART FRACTURES (USING A PHILOS PLATE’) -- 2.4 HEMIARTHROPLASTY FOR FRACTURE DISLOCATION -- Section II: Fractures of the humeral shaft -- 2.5 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF): POSTERIOR APPROACH -- 2.6 ANTEGRADE INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING OF THE HUMERUS -- Section III: Fractures of the distal humerus -- 2.7 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURES -- 2.8 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF): CAPITELLUM -- 2.9 RETROGRADE INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING -- 2.10 PAEDIATRIC SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURES: MANIPULATION UNDER ANAESTHETIC... -- 3 Section I: Fractures of the proximal ulna -- 3.1 TENSION BAND WIRING OF OLECRANON FRACTURES -- 3.2 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF OLECRANON FRACTURES -- Section II: Fractures of the ulnar shaft -- 3.3 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION: PLATING -- 3.4 ELASTIC NAILS FOR ULNAR SHAFT FRACTURES -- Section III: Fractures of the distal ulna -- 3.5 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) FOR DISTAL ULNAR FRACTURES -- 4 Section I: Fractures of the proximal radius -- 4.1 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION OF RADIAL HEAD FRACTURES -- 4.2 EXCISION OF RADIAL HEAD -- Section II: Fractures of the radial shaft -- 4.3 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF): ANTERIOR APPROACH -- 4.4 ELASTIC INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING FOR DIAPHYSEAL FOREARM FRACTURES IN CHILDREN -- Section III: Fractures of the distal radius -- 4.5 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) FOR DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURES: VOLAR APPROACH -- 4.6 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) FOR DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURES: DORSAL APPROACH -- 4.7 CLOSED REDUCTION AND K-WIRE FIXATION OF DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURES -- 4.8 CLOSED REDUCTION AND APPLICATION OF AN EXTERNAL FIXATOR IN DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURES -- 5 Fractures of the wrist -- 5.1 PERCUTANEOUS FIXATION OF SCAPHOID FRACTURES -- 5.2 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF ACUTE SCAPHO- LUNATE DISSOCIATION -- 6 Section I: Fractures of the first metacarpal -- 6.1 KIRSCHNER WIRE FIXATION OF BASAL FRACTURES OF THE FIRST METACARPAL -- 6.2 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF BASAL FRACTURES OF THE FIRST METACARPAL -- 6.3 ULNAR COLLATERAL LIGAMENT REPAIR -- Section II: Fractures of the metacarpals II-V -- 6.4OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF MIDSHAFT FRACTURES OF THE METACARPALS -- 6.5 CLOSED REDUCTION AND INTRAMEDULLARY FIXATION (CRIF) OF DISTAL THIRD FRACTURES OF METACARPALS I I - V -- Section III: Fractures of the phalanx -- 6.6 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF CONDYLAR FRACTURES -- 6.7 OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION (ORIF) OF MIDSHAFT FRACTURES -- Part II Pelvis and acetabulum -- 7 Fractures of the pelvic ring -- 7.1 APPLICATION OF ANTERIOR FRAME