Download or read book Brinker, Piermattei, and Flo's Handbook of Small Animal Orthopedics and Fracture Repair written by Donald L. Piermattei and published by Saunders. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd edition of this handbook covers the diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of conditions affecting the locomotor system in small animals. Presents up-to-date information on various types of fractures and methods of fixation, lameness and joint surgery, and musculoskeletal diseases. Also discusses acute and chronic bone infections; transplantation; plating, wiring and pinning techniques; bone grafting; reconstructive joint surgery; osteochondrosis; and more. Includes over 1,000 step-by-step line drawings. Presents greatly expanded, detailed coverage of the principles and usual methods of fracture fixation in one chapter. Offers an augmented chapter on orthopedic examination--plus state-of-the-art discussions of diagnostic techniques such as nuclear medicine, computerized tomography, arthrography, and arthrocentesis procedures. Explores appropriate fixation methods with a new fracture classification scheme for long bone fractures...and provides a new fracture patient scoring system that recognizes the importance of a specific patient's total clinical situation. Features 2 chapters on fractures and joint problems of the carpus and tarsus. Emphasizes treatment of joint disease with reorganized and updated coverage of joint disease therapies. Clarifies concepts and procedures with more than 500 photos, radiographs, and step-by-step line drawings--207 of them new or revised for this edition! References specific figures in the Atlas of Surgical Approaches to the Bones and Joints of Dogs and Cats, a complementary volume to the handbook. Much more!