The reader is enthusiastically encouraged to tackle this second edition text in two ways. The first is simply to scan chapters with their introductions, summaries and conclusion points. Second, is to delve into those sections of seeming greater interest depending upon one's s- cialty and role. The expansion and quality of this material speak to the success of the first edition by these editors and many similar authors. In addition, the continued and enlarged interest in computer assisted Orthopedic surgery indicates the relevance and enduring importance of this advance in our field of musculoskeletal surgery. I suggest that no other discipline in surgery is so appropriately suited to computer assistance including robotic performance. Orthopedics has always seemed unique to this author in that it focuses more than any other medical field on gross physical, mechanical structure. We deal nearly exclusively in physical repair of broken elements, rearrangement of deformed ones, and resurfacing or refurbishing those that are diseased in a way that has altered their mechanical integrity, shapes, and other structural aspects.

Computer Assited Orthopaedic Surgery

Basics of Computer-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery
CT-Based Navigation Systems
C-Arm-Based Navigation
CT-Free-Based Total Knee Arthroplasty Navigation with a Minimally Invasive Surgical Technique
Bone Morphing: 3D Reconstruction without Pre- or Intra-Operative Imaging
The Attraction of Electromagnetic Computer-Assisted Navigation in Orthopaedic Surgery
CAOS for Technical Skills Training in Orthopaedic Surgery
Cost Analysis of Navigation
Validation and Metrology in CAOS
Total Knee Arthroplasty
Postoperative Alignment of Conventional and Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty
Computer-Assisted Implantation of a Total Knee Prosthesis without Pre-Operative Imaging: The Kinematic Model
CAOS in Mobile Bearing "Tibia Cut First" Total Knee Arthroplasty
Total Knee Arthroplasty using the Stryker Knee Trac System
Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty and the OrthoPilot System
CT-free Navigation including Soft-Tissue Balancing: LCS Total Knee Arthroplasty and VectorVision System
Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty and the Surgetics Bone-Morphing System
Modern Navigated Ligament Balancing in Total Knee Arthroplasty with the PiGalileo System
Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty with the Navitrack® System
Experience with Navigated Total Knee Replacements with CT-Free and CT-Based VectorVision® BrainLAB Navigation System
Navigated Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty, CT-Free Navigation with VectorVision System
Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty and the ORTHOsoft Navitrack System
Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty with the Fluoroscopic Medtronic System
Computer-Assisted Ligament Balancing of the Femoral Tibial Joint Using Pressure Sensors
Computer-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Using Patient-Specific Templates: the Custom-made Cutting Guides
Minimally Invasive Surgery: Total Knee Arthroplasty
Principles of MIS in Total Knee Arthroplasty
MIS Total Knee Arthroplasty with the Limited Quadriceps Splitting Approach
Total Knee Replacement through a Mini-Mid-Vastus Approach
Quadriceps Sparing Total Knee Arthroplasty in Association with Electromagnetic Navigation
MIS Total Knee Arthroplasty with a Subvastus Approach
Minimally Invasive Total Knee Replacement in Tibia First Technique with the INNEX® Knee System
Minimally Invasive Surgery and Navigation: Total Knee Arthroplasty
Valgus Approach to Total Knee Arthroplasty
Implications of Minimally Invasive Surgery and CAOS to TKR Design
Fluoroscopy-Based Navigation in Genesis II Total Knee Arthroplasty with the Medtronic "Viking" System
Minimally Invasive-Navigated Extra-Medullary Preparation in Total Knee Arthroplasty with the "Stryker" System
Navigation and Minimally Invasive Surgery in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (UKA)
Navigated Minimally Invasive Surgery Unicompartmental Knee Replacement
Minimal Invasive Navigated Unicondylar Knee Replacement with the DePuy Ci-System
Hands-on Robotic Unicompartmental Knee Replacement
Navigated Unicompartmental Knee-Replacement -Genesis-Accuris-System
Anterior-Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Image-Free Navigation in ACL Replacement with the OrthoPilot System
PRAXIM ACL Navigation System using Bone Morphing
Fluoroscopic-based ACL Navigation
Total Hip Arthroplasty
Validation of Imageless Total Hip Navigation
Cup and Stem Navigation with the Orthopilot System
Imageless Cup and Stem Navigation in Dysplastic Hips with the Navitrack and Vector Vision Systems
Navigation of Computer-Assisted Designed Hip Arthroplasty
Computer-assisted Hip Resurfacing
Navigation for Hip Resurfacing
Cup and Stem Navigation with the OrthoPilot System
Cup and Stem Navigation with the VectorVision System
Minimally Invasive Surgery: Total Hip Arthroplasty
Total Hip Arthroplasty with the Minimally-Invasive Two-Incisions Approach
Direct Lateral Approach in Minimally Invasive Surgery Total Hip Arthroplasty
Minimally Invasive Surgery Anterolateral Approach in T