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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454441203321

Autore

Kessing Svend Vedel

Titolo

Primary angle-closure and angle-closure glaucoma [[electronic resource] /] / by Svend Vedel Kessing and John Thygesen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hague, Netherlands, : Kugler

Gilsum, NH, : Pathway Book Service, [distributor for US and Canada], c2007

ISBN

90-6299-841-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThygesenJohn

Disciplina

617.7

617.741

Soggetti

Angle-closure glaucoma

Glaucoma

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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