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Retinal Diseases. Biomedical Foundations and Clinical Management
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
the importance of the neuro-ophthalmic his tory and examination in reaching a diagnosis and include practical discussions of differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis. They have produced an excellent, well written, and very readable book that is well illustrated, well referenced, and well indexed. It is, however, not without its share of errors and omissions, most of which will, I'm sure, be corrected in the next edition. It is not the complete text the resident wants and it is not an advanced text suitable for neuro-ophthalmologists, but it is just the thing for practicing ophthalmologists and neurologists and would serve as valuable additional reading or review material for resi dents. The table of contents is sufficient to guide the reader to any of the useful clinical capsules.
June, 1988
cystoid macular edema are extraordinarily com plete and up-to-date. Blumenkranz's discus sion of the surgical treatment of complicated retinal detachment is a clearly written summa ry of the author's own approach to this severe and complex problem. The wide ranging subject matter covered in Retinal Diseases will be most interesting to ophthalmologists with a special interest in reti nal diseases.
Books Received Ophthalmic Drug Delivery. Edited by M. F. Saettone, M. Bucci, and P. Speiser. Padova, Italy, Liviana Editrice S.p.A., 1987. 195 pages, index, illustrated. $59.50
Retinal Diseases. Biomedical Foundations and Clinical Management. By Mark O. M. Tso. Phila delphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1988. 480 pages, index, illustrated. $65
These papers were presented at an interna tional symposium on ophthalmic drug delivery held in Pisa, Italy, in October 1986.
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER F. BLODI
Iowa City, Iowa Many of the chapters in this book contain useful information on medical and surgical as pects of retinal disorders. The text summarizes the proceedings of an international symposium held in Taipei, Taiwan, in the summer of 1983, covering both the clinical and basic science aspects of recent research in retinal diseases. As with other compilations of meetings, the problems of timeliness and of quality varying from chapter to chapter come to the surface. Some of the authors have obviously updated their papers, since many references that post date the meeting are included in several of the chapters. Certain chapters will stand out for all oph thalmologists interested in retinal diseases. Tso's chapters on retinal light toxicity and on
Evoked Potentials III. The Third International Evoked Potentials Symposium. Edited by Colin Barber and Thomas Blum. Stoneham, Massa chusetts, Butterworths, 1987. 487 pages, index, illustrated. $98
This volume records the proceedings of an international symposium on evoked potentials held in Berlin in 1986. It is a startling demon stration of the extent to which this field has grown. Sixty-eight papers by 189 authors are included. The book has been carefully assem bled and pleasingly designed. Anyone who works with evoked potentials should have it as a reference work.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
the importance of the neuro-ophthalmic his tory and examination in reaching a diagnosis and include practical discussions of differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis. They have produced an excellent, well written, and very readable book that is well illustrated, well referenced, and well indexed. It is, however, not without its share of errors and omissions, most of which will, I'm sure, be corrected in the next edition. It is not the complete text the resident wants and it is not an advanced text suitable for neuro-ophthalmologists, but it is just the thing for practicing ophthalmologists and neurologists and would serve as valuable additional reading or review material for resi dents. The table of contents is sufficient to guide the reader to any of the useful clinical capsules.
June, 1988
cystoid macular edema are extraordinarily com plete and up-to-date. Blumenkranz's discus sion of the surgical treatment of complicated retinal detachment is a clearly written summa ry of the author's own approach to this severe and complex problem. The wide ranging subject matter covered in Retinal Diseases will be most interesting to ophthalmologists with a special interest in reti nal diseases.
Books Received Ophthalmic Drug Delivery. Edited by M. F. Saettone, M. Bucci, and P. Speiser. Padova, Italy, Liviana Editrice S.p.A., 1987. 195 pages, index, illustrated. $59.50
Retinal Diseases. Biomedical Foundations and Clinical Management. By Mark O. M. Tso. Phila delphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1988. 480 pages, index, illustrated. $65
These papers were presented at an interna tional symposium on ophthalmic drug delivery held in Pisa, Italy, in October 1986.
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER F. BLODI
Iowa City, Iowa Many of the chapters in this book contain useful information on medical and surgical as pects of retinal disorders. The text summarizes the proceedings of an international symposium held in Taipei, Taiwan, in the summer of 1983, covering both the clinical and basic science aspects of recent research in retinal diseases. As with other compilations of meetings, the problems of timeliness and of quality varying from chapter to chapter come to the surface. Some of the authors have obviously updated their papers, since many references that post date the meeting are included in several of the chapters. Certain chapters will stand out for all oph thalmologists interested in retinal diseases. Tso's chapters on retinal light toxicity and on
Evoked Potentials III. The Third International Evoked Potentials Symposium. Edited by Colin Barber and Thomas Blum. Stoneham, Massa chusetts, Butterworths, 1987. 487 pages, index, illustrated. $98
This volume records the proceedings of an international symposium on evoked potentials held in Berlin in 1986. It is a startling demon stration of the extent to which this field has grown. Sixty-eight papers by 189 authors are included. The book has been carefully assem bled and pleasingly designed. Anyone who works with evoked potentials should have it as a reference work.