European Instructional Lectures

I. General Orthopaedics

1. Current Status of Arthroplasty Registers in Europe
N. Böhler, Gerold Labek

2. National Registration of Hip Fractures in Sweden
Karl-Göran Thorngren

3. Current Status of Articular Cartilage Repair
Emmanuel Thienpont

4. Thromboprophylaxis After Major Orthopaedic Surgery: State of the Art
Alexander G. G. Turpie

II. Paediatrics

5. DDH: Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies
R. Graf

6. Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
C. Zilkens, M. Jäger, Y-J. Kim, M.B. Millis, R. Krauspe

7. Major Joint Contractures in Children
Deborah M. Eastwood

III. Trauma

8. Damage-Control Orthopaedic Surgery in Polytrauma: Influence on the Clinical Course and Its Pathogenetic Background
Hans-Christoph Pape

9. Fractures and Non-Unions of the Clavicle
Patrick Simon

10. Proximal Humeral Fractures
C. Torrens

11. Fixation of Intertrochanteric Femoral Fractures
Vilmos Vécsei, Stefan Hajdu

12. Surgical Management of Distal Tibial Fractures in Adults
Mathieu Assal, Richard Stern

IV. Upper Limb and Hand

13. The Distal Radio-Ulnar Joint: Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics, Instability and Management
Panayotis N. Soucacos, Nickolaos A. Darlis

14. Distal Radius Fractures: Evolution in the Treatment Standard of Care 2009
Antonio Abramo, Philippe Kopylov

15. Dupuytren's Contracture
Hanno Millesi

V. Spine

16. Low Back Pain
R. Eyb, G. Grabmeier

VI. Hip

17. Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Comparison of Current Approaches
Martin Krismer

18. How to Do a Cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty
Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo

19. How to Do a Cementless Hip Arthroplasty
Klaus-Peter Günther, Firas Al-Dabouby, Peter Bernstein

VII. Knee

20. How to Treat a Meniscal Lesion?
Olivier Charrois

21. Soft-Tissue Balance in Total Knee Arthroplasty
David E. Beverland

22. Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty with Bone Loss
Josef Hochreiter, Karl Knahr

VIII. Foot and Ankle

23. Ankle Arthritis
X. Crevoisier

24. Hallux Rigidus: Arthroplasty or Not?
S. Giannini, F. Vannini, R. Bevoni, D. Francesconi

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Orthopedics, Surgical Orthopedics, Conservative Orthopedics