Clinical Practice in Small Incision Cataract Surgery
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: March 29, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9781841844671
Subjects: Ophthalmology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Surgery - General; Medical / Ophthalmology; Clinical Chemistry
Description: Consists of 57 chapters divided into four sections that analyze every detail on small incision cataract surgery. Covers modern IOL materials and IOL implantation techniques through very small incision. A significant amount of information on manual phacofragmentation through small incision, combined SICS and glaucoma surgery, and pediatric cataract surgery sre also included. The etiology, the clinical manifestations and the pharmacological prevention of the posterior-capsule opacification, a problem still to be solved, are presented in detail. The final chapter is an update on twenty-first century cataract-intraocular lens surgery, that describes the shape of things to come.