Books By R. Ganz - Author

Reinhold Ganz is a retired professor of orthopaedics at the University Hospital in Berne, Switzerland. He graduated from medical school, University of Freiburg, Germany. After a postgraduate training in bone physiology and biomechanics at the Department of Pathology of the University of Basel and the AO Research Institute in Davos, he pursued his orthopaedic training under the guidance of Maurice E. Müller in Berne. Succeeding Müller as chief of the department in Berne, he started to give more attention to preservation of the native hip joint.
All research was started with detailed cadaver studies of the vascular supply beyond classic knowledge and was focusing on surgical utility of the findings. Teamwork was the key for success.
A first project was to optimize reorientation surgery of the dysplastic acetabulum. While the available procedures approached the acetabulum from the pelvic outside and as such were interfering with the main blood suppliers, a technique wasdeveloped to execute the