Contents:

SECTION 1: Phacodynamics and Preliminary Considerations in Phaco Chop.

1. Phaco Chop in Transition: An Introduction.

2. Phaco Chop for the Beginners

3. Biaxial Prechop Techniques : Avoiding the Use of Choppers and Prechoppers.

4. Phacodyamics for Chopping

5. Setting Your Phacomachine for Chopping

6. Optimizing Machine Parameters for Phaco Chop-Fluidics

7. Optimizing Machine Parameters for Phaco Chop-Ultrasound.

8. Update on Irrigating Choppers

SECTION 2: Various Phaco Chop Techniques.

9. Prechopping in MICS

10. The Strategies to Use Horizontal and Vertical Phaco Chop.

11. Bimanual Vertical Chop Technique.

12. Phaco Chop for CoMICS (Coaxial Microincision Cataract Surgery).

13. Phaco Chop for BiMICS (Bimanual Microincision Cataract Surgery).

14. Newer Chopping Techniques in 0.7mm Bimanual Microphaco

15. The Scythe Chopper Technique in Phaco : It's Simply Marvelous

16. Chopping Techniques in Truly Endocapsular Microincision Cataract Surgery (TECMICS)

17. Separate Irrigation and Coaxial Phaco Aspiration for Cleaning the Residual Cortex

18. Managing Suprahard Cataracts with the Anteroposterior Chop - A New Technique

19. Vertical Phaco Chop: Tips and Tricks.

20. Quick Chop Express for Suprahard Cataracts.

21. Chopping in Hard Cataracts: Burst Phaco

22. Vejarano's Safe Phaco Chop

23. Microcoaxial Phacoemulsification with Torsional Ultrasound

24. Dynamics of Nucleus Emulsification

25. Locomotive Cored Technique for Rapid Fast Safe Phacoemulsification.

26. Advanced Nucleotomy Techniques

28. Phaco Chopping for All Cataract Conditions

SECTION 3: Phaco Chop in Complicated Cases and Complications Management.

29. Small Pupil with Phaco Chop with Malyugin Ring

30. Managing Complications with Bimanual Microincision Cataract Surgery.

31. Pitfalls with the Phaco Chop Technique

32. Bag-in-the-Lens IOL Implantation and Pseudophakic Retinal Detachment.

33. Chandelier Illumination and Bimanual Vitrectomy Used to Remove a Dislocated IOL.

34. Advanced Phaco Techniques in Challenging Cataract Cases

35. Bimanual Sleeveless Phaco Chop Using 3-D High Definition Heads up Visualization

36. WhiteStar SignatureTM Phaco System: A New Experience.

37. 1.8 mm C-MICS Phaco Chop with Stellaris

38. New Technologies in Bimanual Microphacoemulsification

39. Microcoaxial Cataract Surgery - State of the Art

40. Update on Phaco Chop Techniques

41. Straight Phaco Chop Techniques.

42. Refractive Lensectomy : A New Concept Arising at the Horizon

43. Advances in Irrigating Choppers for Bimanual Phacoemulsification

Index