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The history of modern cataract surgery / edited by Marvin L. Kwitko and Charles D. Kelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cataract--Surgery--History.
- Cataract.
- Crystalline lens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- The Hague, The Netherlands : Kugler, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Surely the threat of blindness from whatever cause, is an event faced by an ever-growing segment of our aging population. However, when the cause was cataract formation, over the centuries a definite treatment evolved and became available to help those afflicted with this problem, from couching, through crude extra-capsular Graeffe knife extraction, intra-capsular cataract surgery, and planned extra-capsular surgery, to phacoemulsification (ultrasound or laser).
- Contents:
- Foreword; Preface History of cataract surgery; The four eras in the evolution of cataract surgery; Intraocular lens implantation The beginnings; Cataract surgery (1920-1960); Pseudophakia: Intracapsular or extracapsular technique?; History of the operating microscope; Anterior chamber intraocular implants and intracapsular cataract surgery; Manual extracapsular surgery; Cryocataract surgery; The 'Sputnik' intraocular lens; Viscoelastics; History of phacoemulsification; Posterior chamber lens implantation; The genesis of the posterior chamber lens implant
- Phacosection: The evolution of a manual small incision-no-stitch phacofragmentation cataract extraction technique Infantile cataract surgery - Evolution of modern techniques; The early use of lens implants in children; Secondary implantation; History of the picosecond YAG laser; The history of IOL power calculation in North America; Intraocular lenses in visual rehabilitation of patients with macular disease; Intraocular lens complications; Teaching courses - 1967-1983; Atlas of Ophthalmic Surgery; Index of authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789062998319
- 9062998313
- OCLC:
- 805607487
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