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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery
by Ronald P. Grelsamer
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1 (April 01 2004)
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Who Needs a Joint Replacement?
There isn't as much deception with joint replacement surgery as there is with outpatient arthroscopies (see What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Knee Pain and Surgery, Warner Books, 2002). If your doctor has suggested a joint replacement

Who Needs a Joint Replacement?
There isn't as much deception with joint replacement surgery as there is with outpatient arthroscopies (see What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Knee Pain and Surgery, Warner Books, 2002). If your doctor has suggested a joint replacement

Osteonecrosis
It's easy to think of bone as a piece of wood. That's because the only bone you've ever seen (presumably) is on your dinner plate. But bone is a very living tissue. It is richly supplied with blood vessels and it is constantly being broken down and built


About the Author

Ronald P. Grelsamer, M.D.Ronald P. Grelsamer, M.D.

RONALD P. GRELSAMER, M.D., is the chief of hip and knee reconstruction at Maimonides Medical Center, and a staff orthopaedic surgeon at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases/Orthopaedic Institute.

Board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1987, Dr. Grelsamer has been continuously recognized in New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors of New York,” and in Castle Connolly's directory of “American Top Doctors.

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