Pediatric retina
Subtitle: medical and surgical approaches
By: editor-in-chief, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hartnett, Mary Elizabeth.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Pediatric ophthalmology.; Retina -- Diseases.; Retinal Diseases -- Child.; Retinal Diseases -- Infant.; Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures -- methods -- Child.; Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures -- methods -- Infant.; Retinal Diseases -- surgery -- Child.; Retinal Diseases -- surgery -- Infant.
Description: This is the first text to address pediatric retinal diseases. The book's broad scope spans the developmental and genetic aspects of pediatric retinal diseases; patient assessment and diagnosis, and medical management; surgical management; and rehabilitation. Abundant color illustrations enhance an outstanding text by world-renowned editors and contributors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Embryology of the posterior segment and developmental disorders / Y. Robert Barishak ... [et al.]; title: Visual assessment of the infant and child / Lea Hyvärinen; title: Examination of pediatric retinal function / Anne B. Fulton and Ronald M. Hansen; title: Genetic counseling for retinal diseases / Deborah Costakos and J. Bronwyn Bateman; title: Posterior segment imaging in infants and children / Cynthia de A. Carvalho Recchia ... [et al.]; title: Albinism, lysosomal storage diseases, and other metabolic conditions / Michael Marble; title: Generalized retinal and choroidal dystrophies / Kean T. Oh and Anup Parikh; title: Stargardt disease/Fundus flavimaculatus / Brian D. Sippy and Thomas A. Aaberg, Sr.; title: Mitochondrial and peroxisomal disorders / Itay Chowers and John B. Kerrison; title: Hereditary retinitis pigmentosa / Raghu C. Murthy and J. Timothy Stout; title: Usher disease / Bronya J.B. Keats; title: Methods to restore vision / John I. Loewenstein ... [et al.]; title: Gene therapy for pediatric retinal diseases / Albert M. Maguire and Jean Bennett; title: Retinoblastoma / R. Max Conway ... [et al. ]; title: Other tumors in infants and children / Marsha C. Cheung ... [et al.]; title: Uveitis affecting infants and children: infectious causes / Albert T. Vitale and C. Stephen Foster; title: Uveitis affecting infants and children: noninfectious causes / C. Stephen Foster ... [et al.]; title: Worldwide causes of childhood blindness / Clare Gilbert; title: General surgical considerations in infants and children / Michael T. Trese and Antonio Capone, Jr.; title: Preoperative management of the infant and child / Scott M. Steidl; title: General anesthesia in premature infants / P. Anthony Meza; title: Surgical approaches to infant and childhood retinal diseases: noninvasive methods / Michael T. Trese and Antonio Capone, Jr.; title: Surgical approaches to infant and childhood retinal diseases: invasive methods / Michael T. Trese and Antonio Capone, Jr.; title: Pediatric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment / Antonio Capone, Jr. and Michael T. Trese; title: Congenital X-linked retinoschisis / Paul A. Sieving, Ian M. MacDonald, and Michael T. Trese; title: Retinopathy of prematurity: current understanding based on clinical trials and animal models / Janet R. McColm and Mary Elizabeth Hartnett; title: Retinopathy of prematurity: evolution of stages 4 and 5 ROP and management / / Michael T. Trese ... [et al.]; title: Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy / Michael T. Trese and Antonio Capone, Jr.; title: Coats' disease / Franco M. Recchia, Antonio Capone, Jr., and Michael T. Trese; title: Persistent fetal vasculature syndrome (persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous) / Michael T. Trese and Antonio Capone, Jr.; title: Surgical approaches to uveitis / Melanie H. Erb and Baruch D. Kuppermann; title: Trauma / Ferenc Kuhn, Robert Morris, and Viktória Mester; title: Visual rehabilitation of the infant and child / Lea Hyvärinen.