The history of modern cataract surgery [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marvin L. Kwitko and Charles D. Kelman

• Pubblicazione: The Hague, The Netherlands, : Kugler, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 617.742
• Soggetto topico: Cataract - Surgery - History; Crystalline lens
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KwitkoMarvin L KelmanCharles D
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; PrefaceHistory of cataract surgery; The four eras in the evolution of cataract surgery; Intraocular lens implantationThe beginnings; Cataract surgery (1920-1960); Pseudophakia: Intracapsular or extracapsular technique?; History of the operating microscope; Anterior chamber intraocular implants and intracapsular cataractsurgery; 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-stitchphacofragmentationcataract extraction techniqueInfantile 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 maculardisease; Intraocular lens complications; Teaching courses - 1967-1983; Atlas of Ophthalmic Surgery; Index of authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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). Doctors, therefore, recognized very early that there was one blinding condition which could be treated and in which vision could be i
• Titolo autorizzato: The history of modern cataract surgery
• ISBN: 90-6299-831-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452376303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II