Intravitreal surgery : principles and practice
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Intravitreal surgery : principles and practice
Prentice-Hall International , Appleton & Lange, c1994
2nd ed
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Description
This second edition describes and discusses the established methodologies, technologies and instrumentation of vitroretinal surgery as well as newer procedures that demand the attention of ophthalmic surgeons in order to further the advance of ophthalmic surgery. They include the use of agents such as perfluorocarbon liquid and tissue plasminogen, surgical techniques and the development of instruments such as the indirect laser ophthalmoscope.
Table of Contents
- Anatomy
- ageing and degenerative diseases of the vitreous
- replacement of vitreous
- preoperative evaluation of the retina and vitreous
- instrumentation
- anterior segment vitrectomy, part I, part II
- posterior segment techniques
- vitrectomy in infants and children
- diabetes mellitus
- trauma - penetrating ocular injuries
- trauma - contusion injuries
- proliferative vitreoretinopathy
- vitrectomy for macular diseases
- vitrectomy for nondiabetic vascular diseases
- additional indications for vitrectomy
- diagnostic vitreous biopsy
- vitrectomy as an adjunctive procedure to eye wall resection
- complications of vitrectomy and their management
- ocular drug therapy
- experimental therapy for proliferative vitreoretinopathy
- viral retinitis
- sustained-release drug-delivery systems
- miscellaneous intravitreal agents.
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