Download or read book Atlas of Functional Shoulder Anatomy written by Giovanni Di Giacomo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anatomy of the shoulder is based on complex joint biomechanics. The purpose of this Atlas is to focus the reader’s attention on a series of bone, ligament, muscle and tendon structures and ultrastructures within the shoulder on which only the most recent international literature has reported in specialized journals. This Atlas also presents extremely high-definition images of "targeted" sections obtained from cadavers preserved using state-of-art techniques. This unique Atlas, making use of images of major visual impact, offers a scientific message on a topical joint, using simple but dedicated descriptive language.