Dr. Keith S Hechtman MD
Orthopedist
1150 Campo Sano Ave Suite 200 Miami FL, 33146About
Dr. Keith Hechtman is a dual Board-certified orthopedic surgeon at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida, specializing in sports medicine and arthroscopy of the shoulder, elbow, knee and ankle. Dr. ...
Education and Training
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS- Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Arthroscopic technique for the knee in morbidly obese patients.
- Avulsion fracture of the ulnar sublime tubercle in overhead throwing athletes.
- Repair of a subscapular tear in a 13-year-old boy.
- Rotator cuff repair in spinal cord injury patients.
- Felt augmentation for thumb dislocation.
- Bone signal abnormalities in the posterolateral tibia and lateral femoral condyle in complete tears of the anterior cruciate ligament: a specific sign?
- Prepatellar bursitis: a complication of arthroscopic surgery of the knee due to a lost meniscal fragment.
- Arthroscopically assisted repair of acute Bankart lesion.
- Evaluation of arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using magnetic resonance imaging.
- Simultaneous bilateral anterior cruciate ligament tears.
Treatments
- Torn Meniscus
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Frozen Shoulder
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Pain
- Rotator Cuff Tear
Fellowships
- Jackson Memorial Hospital
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