For trainees and to help practicing surgeons consolidate their knowledge, orthopedic surgeons present the functional anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics that underlie the principles of hand surgery. In sections on basic principles, emergency hand surgery, and elective hand surgery, they consider such topics as electrodiagnostic studies and peripheral nerve ultrasound, examining the traumatized hand, tendon injuries, high-pressure jet injection injuries, chronic infections of the hand and upper extremity, degenerative osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis of the hand and wrist. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)