F. Brightbill – Corneal Surgery (4th edition)

Автор: F. Brightbill
Название книги: Corneal Surgery (4th)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Хирургия роговицы
Страницы: 958
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This updated, full-color 4th edition features a greatly expanded surgical focus for a practical guide to corneal surgery. The expert guidance of internationally renowned editors provides you with authoritative and current coverage that takes you from an in-depth exploration corneal function as related to corneal surgery through to the correction of refractive errors. New chapters ensure that you stay up-to-date on the latest developments in the field. This easy-to-use, state-of-the-art resource has been reorganized to focus strictly on surgery to provide you with more coverage of recent surgical advances.

The ‘face’ and ‘faces’ of this Fourth Edition text for 2008 have changed as the reader will note
immediately on viewing our front cover. In the hope of appealing to a broader international
readership, we are joined by Olivia Serdarevic (Paris and New York) and Charles McGhee (Auckland,
New Zealand). Peter McDonnell (Baltimore) and Ayad Farjo (Ann Arbor) complement our
editorship, which seemed an increasingly daunting task involving three continents and our book
publisher across the Atlantic. Add in the mix of an older editor (FSB) trying to keep up with the
world of multiple contributors, frequently changing e-mail addresses, along with on-line manuscript
corrections, and the task seemed overwhelming.
This book arose 22 years ago from an Eye Bank Association of America meeting in San Diego
when keratoplasty began to fl ourish and eye banks created more stringent standards and were
led by fellowship-trained corneal surgeons. We trained and were mentored by outstanding corneal
surgeons and infl uenced directly by the likes of Dohlman, Kaufman, Laibson, Fine, Peyton, Polack,
Troutman, Maumenee, Castroviejo and indirectly by Paufi que and Rycroft among others.
The publication of Krachmer, Mannis and Holland’s fi rst and second editions of Cornea stands
as a monument to absolutely the best of our current generation of corneal specialists with
much to tell us about both the medical and surgical aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of
corneal disease. Our mutual publishing company Elsevier suggested that this text should accentuate
the surgical aspects of the cornea, and we have achieved this. In doing so we have strived
to retain appropriate research chapters which aide our understanding of corneal anatomy and
physiology.
This Fourth Edition again utilizes marvelous additional illustrations of Laurel Cook Lhowe to
emphasize surgical technique and there is a return to color fi gures throughout the text. The
refractive surgery portion of Cornea Surgery has been extensively revised and lengthened with
Section Four reviewing ‘Endothelial keratoplasty’ and Part Six providing in-depth coverage of
‘Surgical Correction of Refractive Errors’. The reader will note the retention of previous edition
upgraded chapters such as ‘Penetrating Keratoplasty’ but the loss of all but one eye-banking
chapter. Eye banks under the direction of the Eye Bank Association of America in fact have not
disappeared—to the contrary we use them more than ever as they take on additional roles such
as processing tissue for lamellar keratoplasty.
So as to not forget the lessons of the past; Peter Laibson, both in his lecture in Chicago two years
ago, and in Chapter One of this text, has provided historical perspective on modern day corneal
surger