Main description:

This pragmatic book provides an understanding of the newer surgical techniques so important to the everyday surgical practice of ophthalmology. Provides a comprehensive text complemented with numerous colored and black and white figures and several surgical videos. This text attempts to update the state-of-the-art in ophthalmic surgery in a lucid, authoritative and well-illustrated manner. Chapters on Lasik in presbyopia, phakic intraocular lenses, ocular surface reconstruction, corneal endothelium replacement, non-penetrating filtering surgeries, microincision cataract surgery, bioptics, multifocal intraocular lenses, antivascular endothelial growth factor therapy, vitreoretinal surgeries for diabetic macular, edema, myopic foveoschisis, retinopathy of prematurity and AIDS, and periorbital rejuvenation of the aging face provide a new insight.