Living Textbook of Hand Surgery

The Living Textbook of Hand Surgery is an editable and updatable open access textbook for hand surgery in English.

Description

New chapters are added and all chapters are revised as necessary. Before publication, the individual chapters undergo a Peer-Review-process.

• In accordance with the Budapest Declaration of the Open Access Movement, this textbook is accessible worldwide, barrier-free and free of charge on the Internet. Texts, illustrations, photos and audiovisual media from this book are available to all users for further use, provided the source is cited accordingly (Creative Commons License).
• The direct cooperation partner is gms (German Medical Science), the open access portal of the scientific medical societies in Germany, which are organized by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF).
• The Living Textbook of Hand Surgery is published by the non-profit association "Handchirurgie weltweit e.V."
• All versions of the articles receive an individual DOI (Digital Object Identifier), so that updates and changes can be tracked.

Chapters

Chapter structure of the manual, so far only partially finalized ("work in progress"):

• Foreword doi:10.5680/lhhs000002
• Preface doi:10.5680/lhhs000003
• Acknowledgements doi:10.5680/lhhs000004
• Introduction doi:10.5680/lhhs000005
  • The history of the "Living Textbook of Hand Surgery" doi:10.5680/lhhs000006
  • The concept of the "Living Textbook of Hand Surgery" doi:10.5680/lhhs000007
• Basics for surgical treatment
  • Diagnostics
    • Basics in clinical neurophysiology: Nerve conduction studies and needle electromyography in nerve entrapment syndromes doi:10.5680/lhhs000027
  • Surgical Principles
    • Microsurgical techniques for vascular anastomoses doi:10.5680/lhhs000026
• Bones, joints and ligaments
  • Hand
  • Wrist
  • Distal radius and ulna
  • Forearm
  • Aseptic necroses of the bones
• Tendons
  • Extensor tendons
  • Flexor tendons
• Nerves doi:10.5680/lhhs000028
  • Nerves: Structure, anatomy and response to injury doi:10.5680/lhhs000029
  • Nerve injury: Classification, clinical assessment, investigation, and management doi:10.5680/lhhs000030
  • Operating on nerves: Surgical approaches, primary and secondary repair, nerve grafting and nerve transfer doi:10.5680/lhhs000025
  • Ulnar nerve compression doi:10.5680/lhhs000031
  • Compression neuropathies of the radial nerve doi:10.5680/lhhs000024
  • Median nerve compression: Pronator and anterior interosseous syndromes doi:10.5680/lhhs000023
• Palsies
• Vasculature
• Soft tissue
• Combined injuries
  • Technique of reconstruction
    • [Microsurgical techniques for vascular anastomoses doi:10.5680/lhhs000026
• Special injuries
• Special diseases
  • Dupuytren's disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000008
    • History of Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000009
    • Genetics of Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000010
    • Etiology of Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000011
    • The cell biology of Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000012
    • Treatment of Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000013 (inkl. OP-Videos)
      • Percutaneous needle fasciotomy/needle aponeurotomy (PNF/NA) doi:10.5680/lhhs000014
      • Radiotherapy for Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000015
      • Pharmacotherapy, steroid injection, fat graft, PIP external fixators and other techniques doi:10.5680/lhhs000016
      • Collagenase clostridium histolyticum doi:10.5680/lhhs000032
      • Skin grafting in Dupuytren's Disease doi:10.5680/lhhs000018
      • Surgical treatment for Dupuytren's Disease: open fasciotomy and fasciectomy doi:10.5680/lhhs000019
      • The stiff proximal interphalangeal joint doi:10.5680/lhhs000020
      • Author's preferred treatment doi:10.5680/lhhs000021
    • Dupuytren's Disease – the role of hand therapy doi:10.5680/lhhs000022
• Tumors
• Rehabilitation

Itemized list

Weblinks to chapters of Living Textbook of Hand Surgery

External links

• Living Textbook of Hand Surgery, landing page