Rehabilitation surgery for deformities due to poliomyelitis
Subtitle: techniques for the district hospital
By: edited by J. Krol ; illustrated by Patrick Virolle.
Contributors: Król, Jerzy.; Virolle, Patrick.; World Health Organization.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Contracture (Pathology) -- Surgery.; Poliomyelitis -- Complications.; Poliomyelitis -- Rehabilitation.; Contracture -- surgery.; Joint Deformities, Acquired -- surgery.; Poliomyelitis -- complications.; Poliomyelitis -- rehabilitation.
Notes: "This handbook is ... for the guidance of doctors providing surgical services in small hospitals that are subject to constraints on personnel, equipment, and drugs and where access to specialist services is limited" --p.4 of cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: Preface; Introduction; [Pt. 1]. Poliomyelitis and the fundamentals of rehabilitation surgery; 1. Basic information on poliomyelitis; 2. Sequelae of poliomyelitis; 3. Evaluation of the patient before surgery; 4. Basic techniques; [Pt. 2]. Specific surgical procedures; 5. The hip; 6. The knee; 7. The foot and ankle; 8. The elbow; 9. The trunk.