Mr Laszlo Zolczer

About

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  Mr Laszlo Zolczer is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Croydon who specialises in Upper and Lower Limb surgery.
  
  Mr Zolczer trained and graduated at the Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest. He completed post-graduate Orthopaedic & Trauma training in the UK at Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Institute, Oswestry, Shropshire, and at Croydon University Hospital – delegated by St Georges University Hospital, London.
  
  Since 1994 he continued to work and develop his Orthopaedic and Trauma surgical practice at Croydon, taking up his current full-time position as Consultant in 2001.

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  Upper limb:
  Common tendon, joint conditions, chronic pain, arthritis, sport injuries, sprains,  which require investigations (X-rays, US scan, MRI scans or EMG) followed by conservative ( splint, physiotherapy, steroid and local anaesthetic injections)  or surgical treatment.
  
  - Tennis/ Golfer’s elbow, De Quervain’s wrist pain (Inflamed tendon conditions)
  
  - Elbow bursitis (swollen elbow)
  
  - Wrist ganglion cyst
  
  - Carpal tunnel syndrome
  
  - Trigger finger; Dupuytren’s palm or finger contracture
  
  
  
  Lower limb:   
  Sport injuries, joint sprains, “locked” knees, common tendon, joint conditions, chronic pain, arthritis, requiring investigations (X-rays, US scan or MRI scans) followed by conservative ( splint, physiotherapy, steroid and local anaesthetic injections)  or surgical (Arthroscopic) treatment.
  
  - Knee arthritis for injection and physiotherapy
  
  - Knee sport injuries, cartilage (meniscus) tear for “key-hole” surgery (Arthroscopy)
  
  - Patellar tendinopathy (Jumper’s knee)
  
  - Foot/ankle sport injuries, common tendon conditions, joint pain which need steroid and local anaesthetic injections
  
  - Ankle/foot ligament sprains, ganglion cysts
  
  - Big toe (hallux) and lesser toe problems, bunions, overlapping/cross-over toe deformities
  
  - ‘Policeman’s heel’, plantar fasciitis, heel spur
  
  - Morton’s neuroma, ingrown toe nail problem
  
  Where required specialist diagnostic tests will be carried out on site, mostly on the same day, including: X-rays, US - MRI - scans, nerve test (EMG).