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## Meet the editor

Dr. William B. Stetson is an award-winning orthopedic surgeon who is double board certified in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine. He is the Olympic team doctor for the USA men's and women's indoor volleyball teams. He is also a sports medicine, arthroscopy, and trauma specialist with expertise in the arthroscopic surgical reconstruction of complex shoulder, knee, elbow, and ankle injuries. Dr. Stetson has more than 25 years of

teaching experience as a volunteer clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center where he teaches the residents orthopedic surgery and arthroscopy. He is the author of more than 45 peer-reviewed publications and has more than 100 national and international presentations to his credit. He is the founder of Stetson Lee Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, CA, USA, as well as the founder of Operation Arthroscopy (operationarthroscopy.org) and SurgTime (www.surgtime), a telesurgery platform.

### Contents


Preface

*Arthroscopic Surgery – New Perspectives* provides current information on the cutting edge of arthroscopic surgical techniques for the shoulder and knee. The book addresses controversial topics in arthroscopy, presents the latest perspectives, and discusses how to deal with challenges. For the shoulder, chapters discuss the controversial topic of superior labrum anterior to posterior (SLAP) lesions and the latest arthroscopic techniques to address them. For rotator cuff tears, chapters examine the use of new biologics, augmentation with patches, tendon transfers, and balloon

I would like to thank all my co-authors who so generously donated their time and energy to this project and our editors and publishers at IntechOpen who kept us all on

**William B. Stetson, M.D.**

Los Angeles, California, USA

CA, USA

Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine,

Stetson Lee Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine,

task and who were instrumental throughout the publication process.

spacers.
