The tetraplegic upper limb
By: Caroline Leclercq, guest editor ; Raoul Tubiana, international consulting editor.
Contributors: Leclercq, C. 1952-; Tubiana, Raoul.
Series: Hand clinics -- v. 18, no. 3
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Arm -- Surgery.; Quadriplegia -- Surgery.; Quadriplegia -- Rehabilitation.
Notes: "August 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: History of surgery in the rehabilitation of the tetraplegic upper limb / Eduardo A. Zancolli; value: Tetraplegia: update on assessment / Antonio Landi ... [et al.]; value: The unoperated hand: the role of passive forces in hand function after tetraplegia / M. Elise Johanson and Wendy M. Murray; value: Injured metamere and functional surgery of the tetraplegic upper limb / Bertrand Coulet, Yves Allieu, and Michel Chammas; value: General indications for functional surgery of the hand in tetraplegic patients / Yves Allieu; value: Tendon transfers as applied to tetraplegia / Marc Revol ... [et al.]; value: Cervical epidural anesthesia in tetraplegia / Jacques Deschodt ... [et al.]; value: Elbow extension / Arvid Ejeskär; value: Surgical rehabilitation for the weaker patients (groups 1 and 2 of the international classification) / Caroline Leclercq; value: Midcervical tetraplegia with strong wrist extension: a two-stage synergistic reconstruction of the hand / Eduardo A. Zancolli; value: Strategy for improving hand opening in the tetraplegic upper limb / Jacques Teissier, Charles Fattal, and Guy Egon; value: Surgical strategy: matching the patient with the procedure / Vincent R. Hentz; value: Indications and future directions for upper limb neuroprostheses in tetraplegic patients: a review / Michael W. Keith and Harry Hoyen; value: Reconstruction of the upper extremity in the child with tetraplegia / Michelle A. James; value: Evolution of surgery for tetraplegic hands in Japan / Hidehiko Saito; value: The future: surgery of the spinal cord? / Giorgio A. Brunelli.