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BOOK: The Life and Times of Guillaume Dupuytren 1777- 1835

At the time of Dupuytren’s birth in 1777, France was still governed by an absolute monarch, Louis XVI. When Dupuytren died in 1835, he had lived through two revolutions (1789 and 1830), a republic, a ‘Directoire’, a consulate, an empire under Napoleon and another two royal restorations under Louis XVIII and Charles X.

Dupuytren was always closely invol"Times New Roman">The name Dupuytren has become immortal in medicine, not only in the contracture of the palm, which he described in extreme detail, but also in a specific fracture of the fibula. His name also survives in road names, in the ‘Musée Dupuytren’, the museum of pathological anatomy at the medical faculty in Paris, in the new university centre of Limoges, which is named after him and in an amphitheatre at the Parisian hospital Hôtel-Dieu. The anniversary of his birth and death are still commemorated in Pierre-Buffière where he was born and in Paris where he studied, worked, lived and died. A statue of him has been erected in the inner courtyard of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris and a memorial has been built in his place of birth.

The Life and Times of Guillaume Dupuytren spans a distressing era of French history (1777-1835), in which the centre of medicine moved from Italy to France, with Paris at its core. The author, plastic surgeon Prof. Dr. Paul Wylock, tells an exciting and beautifully illustrated story which will appeal to anybody with a professional or general interest in medicine, history or both.

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Jean Goubau -

(21/07/2010)

A NEW Message from Terry Whipple

Dear Christophe—

Thank you for the excellent summary report of the Bucharest EWAS congress.  What an inspirational organization EWAS has become, thanks in no small part to your great and persistent leadership.  A huge debt of gratitude is owed to you for your vision and your service.

We shall look forward to the EWAS future with confidence and anticipation.

Terry

Terry Whipple -

(21/07/2010)

Evaluation Plenary Session EFORT Madrid 2010 “Arthroscopic possibilities in Hand Surgery“

Prof. Christophe MATHOULIN

Institut de la Main, Paris

cmathoulin@orange.fr

http://www.institutdelamain.com

http://www.wristarthroscopy.eu

Dear friend

We are on the opdium !!

N° 3 !!

Congratulations and thank you very much to all participants

http://www.wristarthroscopy.eu/en/articles-publications-annonces.php...

J Messina -

(21/07/2010)

President's word - 2010 : Tommy Lindau

Many thanks Christophe!!

It is a great pleasure to become President in this fairly young (2005) but excellent society!

I am very proud to have such excellent previous presidents, coming presidents, EWAS executive board and to be part of all of you experienced and less experienced arthroscopists!!

But without our general secretary Christophe we would still be a young society of crawling toddlers and now, reflecting on our recent performances in Madrid and Bucharest, we are a mature society of experienced marathon runners!! We have done a great job and I hope it will continue to evolve!!

I have contacted the organising committee in Norway (Jan Ragnar Haugstvedt and Torstein Husby) with some prel thoughts about our session/sessions next year (2628th of May), but I would welcome ideas from all of you, making you part of this opportunity to share our experience and knowledge! If you decide to send me ideas, please do it in a separate email to tommy.lindau@derbyhospitals.nhs.uk as we would otherwise get too many emails through medtool.

I would here also take the opportunity to express my appreciation of replies with not only personal reflections or suggestions, but esp those who send replies with scientific support to their views, most lately exampled by Prof John Stanley, where his suggestions give you a right not only to do the case as an expert, but also safely reg any medico legal issues. Thanks John and all others who contribute to this fantastic web-based opportunity to share ideas from around the globe! It is amazing to wake up with emails from members who worked and passed on suggestions to your case when you slept....imagine that 10-15 years ago !?

I hope I will make you members proud through my year and I hope you want to share various views that can help EWAS to further evolve....please feel free to send me such ideas, again directly as outlined above.

We joked in Bucharest that our EUROPEAN society in reality is now GLOBAL and my aim is to make it UNIVERSAL!! ;-)

Have a great summer!

May the force be with us!

Tommy

Mr Tommy Lindau MD, PhD
Consultant Hand Surgeon
The Pulvertaft Hand Centre
Kings Treatment Center
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby DE22 3NE

http://www.wristarthroscopy.eu/en/articles-publications-annonces.html

JM -

(02/07/2010)

Look the report of the general assembly of Ewas was held in Bucharest before nearly 100 members.

http://www.wristarthroscopy.eu/en/hall-of-fame-ewas.php...

JM -

(30/06/2010)

EWAS BOOK : Arthroscopic Management of Distal Radius Fractures

Table of contents

Preoperative assessment.- Set up and arthroscopic principles.- Management of simple articular fractures.- Explosion fractures.- TFCC injuries without instability.- DRUJ Instability. Ulnar tears.- DRUJ Instability: Radial tears.- Scapholunate dissociation.- Other ligament injuries.- Management of concomitant scaphoid fractures.- Perilunate dislocation and fracture dislocation.- The role of arthroscopy in postfracture stiffness.- COMPLEX Reconstruction.- Intraarticular osteotomy.- Irreconstructible malunions the role of arhroscopic arthrodesis.- Arthroscopic Radiocarpal Fusion for Post-traumatic Radiocarpal Arthrosis.

http://www.springer.com/medicine/orthopedics/book/978-3-642-05353-5

F Del Pinal, C Mathoulin, R Luchetti -

(20/05/2010)

EWAS SESSIONS during 11 th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. Seoul, Korea

31 october - 4 november 2010, IFSSH 2010 - KOREA

A/  “ Arthroscopic diagnosis and treatment of scapholunate lesions: an EWAS symposium ”

Chairman : Loris Pegoli ( Italy)

-     Classification of scapholunate lesions: arthroscopic management Jane Messina, Riccardo Luchetti  (Italy)

-     Arthroscopic criteria for dating of scapholunate lesions  Luc Van Overstraeten, Belgium, Emmanuel Camus France

-     Arthroscopic treatment of scapho-lunate tears   Byung-Sung Kim, Korea  

-     Scapholunate ligament tears in distal radius fractures. Should all tears be treated?
Tommy Lindau, Great Britain

-     Arthroscopic dorsal capsulodesis in chronic scapho-lunate lesions  Christophe Mathoulin,  France, Nicolas Dauphin (Luxembourg), Vera Sallen (Switzerland)

-     Arthroscopic assisted complete reconstruction of the scapholunate ligament with tendon graft for chronic instability    Pc HO, Hong-Kong SAR

  B/ "Arthroscopic treatment of TFCC tear: an EWAS symposium

Chairman Toshiyasu Nakamura

1. Arthroscopic diagnosis by Yukio Abe, Japan

2. Arthroscopic disgnosis of TFCC tear with distal radius fracture by Tommy Lindau, Sweden, UK

3. Arthroscopic transosseous repair of the TFCC by Toshiyasu Nakamura, Japan

4. Arthroscopic fovea repair by Andrea Atzai, Italy

5. Arthroscopic repair of TFCC coronal tear by Paco Del Pinal. Spain

6. Arthroscopic reconstruction of TFCC by PC Ho, Hong Kong,

EWAS FREE PAPER SESSIONS

MODERATORS: Luchetti , Byung Sung KIM Korea

1.      Arthroscopic interposition in 1^st CMC joint arthritis . MATHOULIN Christophe     (France)

2.      Arthroscopic TFCC repair in young patients . PEGOLI Loris. (Italy)

3.      Arthroscopic assisted SK technique. LUCHETTI Riccardo (Italy)

4.      Osteoscopy: preliminary experience. ATZEI Andrea (Italy)

5.      Arthroscopic resection of wrist ganglia BUENDIA Luis (Brasil)

6.     Scapho-lunate instability: assessment and management.  BAIN Gregory (Australia)

7.      Further experience with arthroscopically assisted transosseous reinsertion of the deep part of TFCC to the fovea of the ulna head for unstable distal radio ulnar joint. TUENNERHOFF Heinrich - Geert, LAUFFER Martin (Germany) 

9.      Websurg devoted to wrist arthroscopy….a new way of teaching” MATHOULIN Christophe (France)

EWAS session during FESSH, Bucarest, Romania 23-26 June 2010

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EWAS session during ESSKA, Oslo, Norway 9-12 June 2010

Chairmen : Jan Ragnar Haugstvedt, Jane Messina

EWAS session during EFORT, Madrid, Spain 2-5 June 2010

ASIA-IRCAD Wrist Arthroscopy Course - Urgent !!!

A message from Terry Whipple

Dear All,