Overview
- Comprehensive overview of scientific and clinical innovations in ophthalmology
- Speeds up information retrieval with A-Z format
- Key points highlighted through high quality color images
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Rapid advances in pathogenetic insight, diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, and basic research continuously influence the state of the art in ophthalmology. This comprehensive encyclopedia offers a systematic and complete source of information including basic principles and novel updates, both clinical and scientific.
The encyclopaedic format offers comprehensive access to focused information on all relevant topics in a clear and user-friendly manner. The spectrum ranges from short definitions, cross references, acronyms to disease chapters including epidemiology, symptoms and differential diagnosis, sections on diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, and comprehensive scientific summaries describing recent findings as well as results from relevant studies. The material is presented in a standardized, uniform and concise way throughout all clinical and academic sections. High-quality images highlight visual information and tables and graphs summarize important data. The encyclopaedia is available in book and electronic format which is linked to relevant ophthalmologic journals and is continuously updated. All chapters are authored by leading experts in the specific field. The target audiences are clinicians in ophthalmology and related specialties, researchers, and students.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth is Professor and Chair of the University Eye Hospital in Vienna, Austria. She is a very well-known expert in the field of Ophthalmology and received several Awards, such as the Achievement Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Johnson Award for Macular Research from the University of Washington and the Research Award by the German Ophthalmological Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology
Editors: Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Thomas Kohnen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69000-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-68292-9Published: 20 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69000-9Published: 05 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LVII, 1954
Number of Illustrations: 90 b/w illustrations, 363 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology, General Practice / Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, Physics, general