Primary angle-closure and angle-closure glaucoma / by Svend Vedel Kessing and John Thygesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kessing, Svend Vedel.

Contributor:

Thygesen, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angle-closure glaucoma.

Glaucoma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hague, Netherlands : Kugler ; Gilsum, NH : Pathway Book Service, [distributor for US and Canada], c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Preface The objective of this book is to offer the general ophthalmologists a clinical comprehensive and practical guidance manual for primary angle-closure and primary angle-closure glaucoma to be used in the daily clinical work. Already in the nineteen seventies our Danish colleague, Poul Helge Alsbirk documented the exceptional high prevalence of angle-closure glaucoma among the Eskimo or Inuit population in Greenland, a North-Atlantic part of Denmark. As Danish ophthalmologists ever since have been responsible for the diagnostics and therapy of primary angle-closure (PAC) and primary

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; DETECTION OF PRIMARYANGLE-CLOSURE (PAC); DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN PAC; MAIN CLASSIFICATION OF PAC; TREATMENT PROCEDURES WITH PAC; REFERENCES; RIGHTS OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789062998418

9062998410

OCLC:

437198643