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Wrist Arthroscopy in Traumatic and Post-Traumatic Injuries

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The development of wrist arthroscopy was the natural evolution of the successful application of arthroscopy to the other joints of the human body.

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  1. Orthopaedic and Traumatological Unit, Hospital of Legnano, Milan, Italy

    Ferdinando Battistella

  2. Carolina Medical Center, Warsaw, Poland

    Grzegorz Adamczyk M.D., Ph.D. & Maciej Miszczak M.D.

  3. Clinique du Parc, 155 Bd de Stalingrad, 69006, Lyon, France

    Christophe Rizzo

  4. Institute de la Main, 6 square Jouvenet, 75016, Paris, France

    Christophe Mathoulin

  5. Practice for Plastic and Hand Surgery, James-Loeb-Str. 13, D-82418, Murnau, Germany

    Eva-Maria Baur

  6. Service de Chirurgie Plastique, 4, rue E Berblé, Luxembourg GD, Luxembourg

    Nicolas Dauphin

  7. Sports Clinic of Paris, 36, Bd Saint Marcel, 7505, Paris, France

    Didier Fontès

  8. Rimini Hand and Rehabilitation Center, Rimini, Italy

    Riccardo Luchetti

  9. Hand Surgery Unit, Gaetano Pini Orthopaedic Institute, Via Gaetano Pini, 9, Milan, MI, 20122, Italy

    Jane C. Messina

  10. Fenice Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation Team, Centro di Medicina, Viale della Repubblica, 12/A, Villorba, Treviso, Italy

    Andrea Atzei & Federica Braidotti Ph.T.

  11. Policlinico San Giorgio, Pordenone, Italy

    Andrea Atzei & Federica Braidotti Ph.T.

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Battistella, F. et al. (2012). Wrist Arthroscopy in Traumatic and Post-Traumatic Injuries. In: Menetrey, J., Zaffagnini, S., Fritschy, D., van Dijk, N. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29446-4_12

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