Two University Orthopaedic Associates (UOA) doctors – Dr. Christopher Doumas and Dr. David R. Polonet – were the co-authors of two separate articles published in the February 2015 edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

The monthly journal is the number one clinical review journal of musculoskeletal education in the world. It is the official clinical orthopaedic journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which represents more than 38,000 active members. The peer-reviewed articles in JAAOS evaluate and synthesize current information about the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal conditions and document the state of the practice of orthopaedics.

Dr. Doumas, a board certified orthopaedic surgeon with a subspecialty in surgery of the hand and upper extremity, is also affiliated with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rutgers–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, NJ. As a leading expert in the field, the Journal commissioned him to be principal author of “Calcium Deposits in the Hand and Wrist,” an article that focuses on calcium, or calcific, deposition disease in the form of acute calcific periarthritis of the hand and wrist, an uncommon condition that may be confused with crystalline or inflammatory arthropathies and infection. The authors stress the importance of the clinician being aware of this disease process and to include it in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with acutely painful, focal inflammation of the hand or wrist.

Dr. Polonet, a board certified orthopaedic surgeon, is also affiliated with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ. He co-wrote “External Fixation of Tibial Fractures,” which discusses how that method of treatment has declined because of the increased popularity of intramedullary nailing and drawbacks associated with external fixation.

The orthopaedic surgeons at University Orthopaedic Associates, which has New Jersey offices in Somerset, Wall Township and Princeton, treat general orthopaedic conditions affecting adult, adolescent, and pediatric patients. Each physician at UOA, however, also has fellowship training in subspecialties of orthopaedic care.