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Fully updated edition that is dedicated to refractive complications (with practical hints and case reports on outcomes) to provide ophthalmic surgeons with the most adequate solutions for the most frequent problems
Offers well established guidelines with practical pearls on how to avoid and treat complications
Written by internationally renowned experts
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
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LASIK Intraoperative Complications
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Front Matter
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LASIK Postoperative Complications
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Front Matter
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About this book
The diversity of procedures that characterize modern refractive surgery makes it, both for the beginner and the experienced surgeon, necessary to have well established guidelines to face refractive complications. This lavishly illustrated guide is written by international opinion leaders with extensive experience in the practice of refractive surgery. It offers the reader practical pearls to the solution and prevention of the different complications of corneal and refractive surgery.
This book provides ophthalmic surgeons with appropriate solutions for the most frequent problems they would face in their daily practice.Â
Surgical complications are described and illustrated from their pathogenesis to various treatment modalities. Complications covered include: Intraoperative complications (e.g. those encountered during femtosecond laser, SMILE and LASIK, corneal refractive surgery, refractive lens exchange, and intraocular refractive procedures); early post-operative complications and late post-operative complications.Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University, Alicante, Spain
Jorge L. Alio
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Department of Ophthalmologic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Dimitri T. Azar
About the editors
Dr. Dimitri T. Azar, is a renowned physician-scientist and expert on diseases of the cornea, and holds the position of dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Management of Complications in Refractive Surgery
Editors: Jorge L. Alio, Dimitri T. Azar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60561-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60560-9Published: 18 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86889-9Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60561-6Published: 02 January 2018
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 430
Number of Illustrations: 105 b/w illustrations, 413 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology, Minimally Invasive Surgery