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Last updated: 11/24/2009
BOOKS
Ferlic, D. C. A Colour Atlas of Joint Replacement of the Wrist and Hand (Single Surgical Procedures, 41). St. Louis: Year Book Medical Pub, 1986.
Gilula, L. A. Imaging of the Wrist...
and Hand. Philadelphia: W B Saunders, 1996.
Weinzweig, J., ed. Hand & Wrist Surgery Secrets. New York: Hanley & Belfus, 2000.
PERIODICALS
Courtman, N. H., D. H., Sochart. I. A., Trail. and J. K. Stanley. "Biaxial Wrist Replacement. Initial Results in the Rheumatoid Patient."The Journal of Hand Surgery: Journal of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand 24 (February 1999): 32-34.
Cuenod, P., E. Charriere, and M. Y. Papaloizos. "A mechanical comparison of bone-ligament-bone autografts from the wrist for replacement of the scapholunate ligament."Journal of Hand Surgery (American) 27 (November 2002): 985-990.
Takwale, V. J., D., Nuttall. I. A., Trail. and J. K. Stanley. "Biaxial total wrist replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical review, survivorship and radiological analysis."Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British) 84 (July 2002): 692-699.
Meuli, H. C. "Recent literature on total wrist replacement not carefully reviewed."The Journal of Hand Surgery: Journal of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand 24 (October 1999): 635.
ORGANIZATIONS
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). 6300 North River Road, Rosemont, Illinois 60018-4262. (847) 823-7186; (800) 346-AAOS.
OTHER
"Wrist Replacement."University of Maryland Information Page.
"Wrist Joint Replacement (Arthroplasty)."AAOS.
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