The rapid development in the surgical treatment of fractures during the past 9 years has necessitated considerable modifications to the first edition of this book.
During their 20 years of activity members of the Associa- tion for the Study of Internal Fixation (AO - ASIF) have made authoritative contributions to the development of internal and external fixation.
Surgery an essentially manual exercise in its early days, has progressively grown richer in complementary techniques helping the surgeon to perfect his movements and increase efficiency.
Die Unfallchirurgie hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten durch neue Möglich keiten und Verfahren der Diagnostik und Therapie eine enorme Weiter entwicklung erfahren.
It is to the great and lasting credit of LORENZ BOHLER and his school that they have in the last decade developed and demonstrated so thoroughly the techniques for the conservative management of fractures.
Selective decontamination is a technique which combines short-term and long-term antimicrobials to prevent or treat the acquisition and subsequent carriage of microorganisms causing late colonization and infections.
It is a great pleasure and honor to be asked to participate in the translation of this important and historical volume on thoracic surgery and to provide this foreword.
Although the number of published papers on traumatic hip disloca- tion in childhood is large, our actual current knowledge on this inju- ry in this age group is still full of obscure points and unsolved prob- lems.
One reason for failure to cure solid tumors by surgery appears to be the impossibility of controlling metastases that are present but latent at the time of operation.
It is with pleasure that we offer these introductory remarks for the Manual of Internal Fixation in the Horse, a book describing a further application of AO or ASIF techniques.
