Textbook of Bunion Surgery, 4th Edition
Textbook of Bunion Surgery, 4th Edition
By: Joshua Gerbert, DPM
Reflecting his more than 40 years of experience performing bunion surgery, Dr. Gerbert has updated his revered Textbook of Bunion Surgery for immediate release. Written specifically with the podiatric physician in mind, this fourth edition refines the criteria for specific procedures and includes expanded surgical content.
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New full color images and redrawn line figures bring extended value and greater detail to the overall content of this dynamic textbook. It will help to assist podiatric medical students, surgical residents, and foot surgeons to better understand, evaluate, treat, and manage inherent complications of various bunion deformities with more predictable and favorable outcomes. New sections feature preoperative clinical and radiographic criteria, biomechanical considerations, operative techniques, postoperative management, and inherent complications.
Joshua Gerbert, DPM
Dr. Gerbert graduated from Texas A&M University and received his doctor of podiatric medicine degree from the California College of Podiatric Medicine. He then completed a surgical residency program at Highland Alameda County Hospital and Pacific Coast Hospital. Dr. Gerbert is board certified in foot and ankle surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. He is a professor of surgery at the California School of Podiatric Medicine at Samuel Merrit College and chief of the podiatry department at St. Mary's Medical Center. Dr. Gerbert has lectured nationally and internationally on all aspects of foot and ankle surgery and written numerous chapters in medical textbooks and articles in peer review journals. He brings more than 40 years of experience as editor of the Textbook of Bunion Surgery, 4th Edition and wrote the Lesser Forefoot Surgery textbook.
Guido A. LaPorta, MD, DPM, FACFAS
All surgeons who treat hallux valgus should have this textbook in their library. I certainly will make it required reading for my residents and fellows. I predict that this text will become a classic in the field of foot and ankle surgery.