Cornea and External Eye Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy: Pathogenesis and Management

   • Leejee H. Suh, M. Vaughn Emerson

   Pages 1-13

3. Amniotic Membrane Transplantation for the Treatment of Corneal Ulceration in Infectious Keratitis

   • Arnd Heiligenhaus, Carsten Heinz, Klaus Schmitz, Christoph Tappeiner, Dirk Bauer, Daniel Meller

   Pages 15-36

4. Corneal Regenerative Medicine: Corneal Substitutes for Transplantation

   • May Griffith, Per Fagerholm, Wenguang Liu, Christopher R. McLaughlin, Fengfu Li

   Pages 37-53

5. Phototherapeutic Keratectomy in Corneal Dystrophies

   • Berthold Seitz, Achim Langenbucher

   Pages 55-82

6. Classification of Corneal Dystrophies on a Molecular Genetic Basis

   • Francis L. Munier, Daniel F. Schorderet

   Pages 83-100

7. Developments in Corneal Preservation

   • W. John Armitage

   Pages 101-114

8. Herpes Simplex Keratitis and Related Syndromes

   • Anshoo Choudhary, Gareth T. Higgins, Stephen B. Kaye

   Pages 115-152

9. Management of Ocular Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid

   • Valerie P.J. Saw, John K.G. Dart

   Pages 153-177

10. Adult Inclusion Conjunctivitis

    • Philippe Kestelyn

    Pages 179-184

11. Chronic Blepharitis: Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, and New Treatment Options

    • Claudia Auw-Haedrich, Thomas Reinhard

    Pages 185-199

12. New Aspects on the Pathogenesis of Conjunctival Melanoma

    • Thomas Seregard, Eugenio Triay

    Pages 201-216

13. In Vivo Confocal Microscopy in Healthy Conjunctiva, Conjunctivitis, and Conjunctival Tumors

    • Elisabeth M. Messmer

    Pages 217-227

14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-232

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Te series Essentials in Ophthalmology was initi- to discuss clinically relevant and appropriate to- ated two years ago to expedite the timely trans - ics. Summaries of clinically relevant information fer of new information in vision science and have been provided throughout each chapter. evidence-based medicine into clinical practice. Each subspecialty area now has been covered We thought that this prospicient idea would be once, and the response to the frst eight volumes moved and guided by a resolute commitment in the series has been enthusiastically positive. to excellence. It is reasonable to now update our With the start of the second cycle of subspecialty readers with what has been achieved. coverage, the dissemination of practical informa - Te immediate goal was to transfer informa - tion will be continued as we learn more about tion through a high quality quarterly publication the emerging advances in various ophthalmic in which ophthalmology would be represented by subspecialties that can be applied to obtain the eight subspecialties. In this regard, each issue has best possible care of our patients. Moreover, we had a subspecialty theme and has been overseen will continue to highlight clinically relevant i- by two internationally recognized volume edi - formation and maintain our commitment to e- tors, who in turn have invited a bevy of experts cellence. G. K. Krieglstein R. N.

• Chlamydial infection
• Conjunctival melanoma
• Corneal dystrophies
• Corneal preservation
• Limbal stem cell deficiency
• eye
• pathogenesis

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