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Corneal Disease
. Ed(S): Reinhard, Thomas; Larkin, Frank
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Description for Corneal Disease
Hardback. Written by leading clinicians and scientists, this book provides up-to-date guidance in the precise use of the latest techniques in corneal imaging, as well as evaluating treatment options and covering the management of corneal disease in infants. Editor(s): Reinhard, Thomas; Larkin, Frank. Num Pages: 126 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 340.
This book, written by leading clinicians and scientists, focuses on recent clinically relevant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of corneal disorders. After an opening chapter considering the latest knowledge on the heredity of keratoconus, important advances in corneal imaging are discussed, in particular the use of optical coherence tomography and in vivo confocal microscopy for evaluation of the normal and the diseased cornea. Antiangiogenic treatment options are then reviewed, and new aspects in the diagnosis and therapy of mycobacterial keratitis explained. Further chapters address the storage of donor cornea for penetrating and lamellar keratoplasty and the keratoplasty in infants. ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642287466
SKU
V9783642287466
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99-3
About . Ed(S): Reinhard, Thomas; Larkin, Frank
Thomas Reinhard is expert in the diagnosis and therapy of corneal diseases and especially in corneal surgery, including all techniques of lamellar and penetrating keratoplasty. To date he has published about 300 scientific papers. He has been chairman of the University Eye Hospital Freiburg, Germany since 2003. He is board member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) and was its ... Read more
Reviews for Corneal Disease
"It focuses on recent developments, primarily involving the anterior segment and corneal disease in particular. ... this is a very good exposition of anterior segment subjects not generally considered in present textbooks, with knowledge often not easily available elsewhere." (Herbert E. Kaufman, Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Vol. 253, October, 2015)