Living Handbooks

Living Textbook of Hand Surgery

Handchirurgie Weltweit e.V.

Living Textbook of Hand Surgery is issued by:

Handchirurgie Weltweit e.V.

Karower Str. 13
D-16341 Panketal, Germany
phone: +49 (0) 30 983 118 56
E-Mail: contact(at)hand-ww.de

Registered at Amtsgericht Frankfurt /Oder - Vereinsgericht Aktenzeichen VR 5906 FF
Steuernummer 065 / 141 / 01815 (Finanzamt Eberswalde)

Representative Board:

Dr. med. Richarda Böttcher, Panketal
Dr. med. Eva-Maria Baur, Murnau
Dr. med. Martin Langer, Unna

Editor in Chief, responsible for the contents
according to § 5 TMG and § 55 Abs. 2 RStV (Germany):

Dr. med. Richarda Böttcher
Schwerpunkt für rekonstruktive Chirurgie bei
Plexusparese, Tetraplegie und Cerebralparese
Oberärztin Hand-, Replantations- und Mikrochirurgie
Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin
Warener Straße 7
D-12683 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail: richarda.boettcher(at)hand-ww.de

Logo-Design:

Doro Scheurlen

Publisher:

German Medical Science GMS gGmbH
Berlin, Germany

CEO: Dennis Makoschey, Dipl.-Biol.
c/o AWMF-Geschäftsstelle Berlin
Birkenstr. 67
D-10559 Berlin
phone: +49 (030) 2009 7777
e-mail: office(at)e-gms.org

Editorial office at ZB MED:

Dr. Ursula Arning
Viviana Vauth

all at:
ZB MED - Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften
Gleueler Str. 60
D-50931 Köln, Germany
phone: +49 (0)221 478-5603


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