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Three leading ophthalmology experts, together with an international team of refractive surgeons, provide practical, clinically focused coverage of the latest advances in this rapidly changing field. Abundant photographs and line drawings offer step-by-step guidance on a wide range of common refracti...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Azar, Dimitri T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Mosby / Elsevier, ©2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Eye > Surgery > Complications.
Eye > Refractive errors > Treatment.
Refractive Surgical Procedures
Corneal Surgery, Laser > methods
Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures > methods
Œil > Vices de réfraction > Traitement.
Eye > Refractive errors > Treatment
Eye > Surgery > Complications
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Terminology, classification and history
  • 2. Corneal would healing following refractive surgery
  • 3. Refractive surgery revealed through in vivo confocal microscopy
  • 4. Ocular surface diseases of importance to the refractive surgeon
  • 5. Ocular and systemic diseases associated with ametropia
  • 6. Patient evaluation for refractive surgery
  • 7. Physiological optics for keratorefractive surgery
  • 8. Corneal topography
  • 9. Wavefront analysis
  • 10. Laser and mechanical microkeratomes
  • 11. Excimer lasers
  • 12. LASIK for myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism
  • 13. Custom LASIK
  • 14. LASIK complications and their management
  • 15. Photorefractive keratectomy (PTK)
  • 16. LASIK
  • 17. Epi-LASIK
  • 18. Phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK)
  • 19. Intralamellar phototherapeutic keratectomy
  • 20. LASIK and TopoLink for irregular astigmatism
  • 21. Pachymetry-assisted laser keratopolasty
  • 22. Radial keratomy
  • 23. The incisional management of astigmatism
  • 24. Conductive keratoplasty (CK)
  • 25. Laser thermokeratooplasty for hyperopia and astigmatism
  • 26. The intrastromal corneal ring for the correction of myopia and keratoconus
  • 27. Intracorneal alloplastic inclusions and femtosecond laser lamellar surgery
  • 28. Epikeratoplasty
  • 29. Orthokeratology
  • 30. Preoperative evaluation for phakic IOL surgery
  • 31. Phakic IOL power calculations
  • 32. Angle-supported phakic IOLs
  • 33. Iris-fixated phakic intraocular lenses
  • 34. Posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens
  • 35. Complications of phakic intraocular lenses
  • 36. Scleral expansion and anterior ciliary sclerotomy
  • 37. Monovision and near vision conductive keratoplasty
  • 38 Multifocal corneal surgery for presbyopia
  • 39. Multifocal intraocular lenses
  • 40. Refractive surgical procedures to restore accommodation
  • 41. Accommodating intraocular lenses
  • 42. Combined refractive surgical procedures
  • 43. Refractive surgery in systemic disease and after ocular surgery
  • 44. IOL calculations after keratorefractive surgery
  • 45. Postkeratoplasty astigmatism: etiology, management and femtosecond laser applications.