Advances in Specialist Hip Surgery

Part I. Anatomy of the hip and its surgical application.- Surgical Anatomy of the Hip.- The minimally invasive direct anterior approach to the hip.- Part II. Maturity disorders of the hip.- Hip dysplasia: Osteotomies around the hip in childhood.- Pelvic osteotomies: The Periacetabular Osteotomy Technique for Patients with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip.- Navigated Rotational Acetabular Osteotomy.- Part III. Arthroscopy of the hip.- Hip arthroscopy and impingement.- Evolution, Current Concepts and Future Developments in Arthroscopic Surgery of the Hip.- Current concepts in the management of femoroacetabular impingement.- Part IV  Osteonecrosis of the femoral head: Promising hip preservation surgery techniques.- Current state of diagnosis and treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head.- Femoral Osteotomies for Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head.- Stem cell therapy for the treatment of hip osteonecrosis.- Alternative Head Preserving Procedure for Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head:  Tissue Engineering, Future Perspective.- Part V. Arthritis of the hip: Primary hip arthroplasty.- Ceramic-on-ceramic Total Hip Arthroplasty.- Highly cross-linked polyethylene bearing.- Metal-on-metal Total Hip Arthroplasty.- First experience with ceramic-on-ceramic hip resurfacing.- Cup positioning using anatomical landmarks of the acetabulum.- Intra-operative measurement of cementless stem anteversion.- Part VI  Arthritis of the hip: Revision Hip Arthroplasty.- Triflange cup and 3D-printing.- Trochanteric osteotomy.- Acetabular defects and their treatment.- Surgical Management of Femoral Bone Loss.

Wolf R. Drescher, MD, PhD, is Head of the Joint Replacement Center and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Lower Limb and Arthroplasty, Rummelsberg Hospital, Schwarzenbruck, Germany. After graduating from Medical School at the University of Düsseldorf in 1997, he gained his PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark and completed his board certification as a specialist in orthopaedics in Kiel in 2005. He was appointed as an Associate Professor by RWTH University, Aachen, in 2011. Dr. Drescher is Past-President of ARCO (Association Research Circulation Osseous) and Chairman of VLOU Bavaria (VLOU is the German association for leading orthopaedic and trauma surgeons). His clinical focuses are hip and knee arthroplasty, joint-preserving surgery of the lower limb, and avascular necrosis of the hip, while his research fields include pathogenesis and treatment of osteonecrosis, minimally invasive arthroplasty, short stems, and fast track surgery. He is an editorial board member for Hip and Pelvis (journal of the Korean Hip Society).

Kyung-Hoi (Kay) Koo, MD, PhD, is Director of the Joint Disease and Arthroplasty Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea and a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine. Dr. Koo graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine in 1982 and then specialized in skeletal radiology and orthopaedic surgery. He is a Former President of ARCO (Association Research Circulation Osseous), current President of the Korean Hip Society, and an international member of the American Academy of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS). His special areas of interest include the pathophysiology of osteonecrosis, joint-preserving operations, and hip replacement arthroplasty. Dr. Koo is an editorial board member for The Bone & Joint Journal, the Journal of Korean Medical Science, and the Journal of Hip Surgery. He has authored 214 articles in