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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Online access: Gale
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| 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). Doctors, therefore, recognized very early that there was one blinding condition which could be treated and in which vision could be i |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Aug. 9, 2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Cataract -- Surgery -- History
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Cataract Extraction -- history
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Vision.
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MEDICAL -- Ophthalmology.
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Cataract -- Surgery
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kwitko, Marvin L.
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Kelman, Charles D.
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| ISBN |
9789062998319 |
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9062998313 |
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9789062991549 |
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9062991548 |
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