Classification of limb fractures | |
Adult limb fractures. AM Siddiqui and N Rushton. London: Greenwich Medical Media, 2002 (vii + 102 pp). ISBN 1 84110 078 1. |
This book
has a very specific target audience — in most instances it would only be useful to fairly advanced trainee orthopaedic surgeons. If it is recognised as a reminder reference, then it is useful but, as such, expensive. It provides a fairly comprehensive list of fracture classifications within orthopaedic surgery. To use it one must be familiar with each classification, and what it implies about the fracture, as well as its treatment and prognosis. As such, the book serves as a reminder of the details of the classification, but it does not guide a person who is not familiar with the classification on how to treat a particular fracture. Having looked up the classification one must then find another text to determine the appropriate treatment. Adult limb fractures does, however, meet the stated objective of its authors — that is, to present all the major classifications of fractures of the extremities in one place. Doron Sher
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