Hand, Elbow, and Microsurgery Unit
Specialists in hand, wrist, elbow, microsurgery, minimally invasive surgery, sports medicine, and congenital/child hand conditions.
MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical technique performed through small incisions to reduce tissue trauma and expedite recovery.
There are different types of minimally invasive techniques: Percutaneous Surgery, Arthroscopic Surgery, and Endoscopic Surgery.
To perform minimally invasive surgery, tiny surgical instruments are introduced through the remaining openings.
At ICATME, in the Hand, Elbow, and Microsurgery Unit, we have been using, innovating, and promoting minimally invasive surgery for over 10 years in all pathologies that can be treated with these techniques. In addition to being less invasive/aggressive, it reduces postoperative pain by decreasing surgical inflammation, shortens recovery time, and causes less scarring/adhesion than conventional surgery.
Through small cuts called “portals,” approximately 0.5 to 1 cm in size, a camera is inserted into a joint (called arthroscopy) or into a cavity (called endoscopy) to guide the surgery with high-resolution images displayed on a monitor.
CONDITIONS TREATABLE WITH MINIMALLY INVASIVE SUGERY
Arthroscopic Surgery
- Baseball pitcher’s elbow or elbow instabilities.
- Synovial chondromatosis.
- Tennis elbow (epicondylitis).
- Elbow fractures.
- Scaphoid fractures.
- Radius fractures.
- Carpal instabilities.
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) injuries.
- Scapholunate and lunotriquetral ligament injuries.
- Cartilage injuries of the wrist or elbow.
- Synovial cysts or ganglions.
- Thumb arthritis (rhizarthrosis).
- Wrist or elbow synovitis.
