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Contact Lenses
Vol. 104, No. 1
and basic approach to the clinical aspects of contact lens practice including patient selection, fitting technique, follow-up, and complications. Divided into eight chapters, the book covers prefitting evaluation, patient selection, rigid lens fitting, soft contact lens fitting techniques, therapeutic lenses, contact lens complications, and the interface between refractive surgery and contact lenses. The editor has produced a well-organized, balanced, and nicely proportioned text that is practical and concise. Photographs and illustrations are good. Included are several useful tables, which help the reader to organize the burgeoning and sometimes bewildering array of lenses and lens care products available on the market. The ophthalmologist today needs a basic background in contact lenses as well as the ability to recognize and manage their complications, even if he does not routinely fit lenses. This text provides a good manual for basic contact lens techniques.
Contact Lenses. Edited by James V. Aquavella and Gullapalli N. Rao. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1987. 278 pages, index, illustrated. $42.50 Reviewed by MARK J. MANNIS
Books Received
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information about an ever changing and proliferating field of ophthalmic practice.
Books Received A Practical Guide to Cataract and Lens Implant Surgery. By R. S. Bartholomew. New York, Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1986. 72 pages, index, illustrated. $40 This modest how-to volume is an Edinburgh cataract surgeon's description of how he performs an extracapsular cataract extraction and implants a J-loop lens. The book is well laid out with clear drawings by the author on every page. The text and illustrations are full of common sense and good advice. Every ophthalmology resident considering a career as a cataract surgeon should spend an evening with a book like this.
Developments in Ophthalmology. Volume 13. Complications in Modern Ophthalmic Surgery. Edited by Use Strempel. Series editor W. Straub. Basel, Switzerland, S. Karger AG, 1987. 156 pages, index, illustrated. $71.25
Sacramento, California This volume in ten chapters covers the basic clinical aspects of rigid and hydrogel lens fitting. The contributors are experts in contact lenses from both ophthalmology and optometry and have contributed chapters covering the physiology of contact lens wear, fitting techniques for rigid lenses, aphakic and cosmetic hydrogel lenses, lenses for the correction of presbyopia, therapeutic lenses, extended-wear lenses, application of lenses to special refractive problems, lens-related complications, and contact lens solutions. The chapters are, in general, well-written, complete, nicely illustrated, and comprehensively annotated. The subject matter of the book is heavily weighted toward hydrogel lenses, although rigid lens applications are covered adequately. The rationale for the order of the chapters is not readily apparent; the book, nonetheless, provides the reader with a good overall summary of contact lens practice, and contains current
This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Marburg in January 1986 to honor Professor Wolfgang Straub.
Colour Vision Deficiencies VIII. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Avignon 1985. Edited by G. Verriest. Dordrecht, The Nether lands, 1987. 524 pages, illustrated. $124.50 This volume is one of a series produced by the International Research Group on Color Vision Deficiencies. It is a collection of the papers offered at their June 1985 symposium. The book is a gold mine of ideas and techniques for color vision scientists and should be in every university library.
and basic approach to the clinical aspects of contact lens practice including patient selection, fitting technique, follow-up, and complications. Divided into eight chapters, the book covers prefitting evaluation, patient selection, rigid lens fitting, soft contact lens fitting techniques, therapeutic lenses, contact lens complications, and the interface between refractive surgery and contact lenses. The editor has produced a well-organized, balanced, and nicely proportioned text that is practical and concise. Photographs and illustrations are good. Included are several useful tables, which help the reader to organize the burgeoning and sometimes bewildering array of lenses and lens care products available on the market. The ophthalmologist today needs a basic background in contact lenses as well as the ability to recognize and manage their complications, even if he does not routinely fit lenses. This text provides a good manual for basic contact lens techniques.
Contact Lenses. Edited by James V. Aquavella and Gullapalli N. Rao. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1987. 278 pages, index, illustrated. $42.50 Reviewed by MARK J. MANNIS
Books Received
105
information about an ever changing and proliferating field of ophthalmic practice.
Books Received A Practical Guide to Cataract and Lens Implant Surgery. By R. S. Bartholomew. New York, Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1986. 72 pages, index, illustrated. $40 This modest how-to volume is an Edinburgh cataract surgeon's description of how he performs an extracapsular cataract extraction and implants a J-loop lens. The book is well laid out with clear drawings by the author on every page. The text and illustrations are full of common sense and good advice. Every ophthalmology resident considering a career as a cataract surgeon should spend an evening with a book like this.
Developments in Ophthalmology. Volume 13. Complications in Modern Ophthalmic Surgery. Edited by Use Strempel. Series editor W. Straub. Basel, Switzerland, S. Karger AG, 1987. 156 pages, index, illustrated. $71.25
Sacramento, California This volume in ten chapters covers the basic clinical aspects of rigid and hydrogel lens fitting. The contributors are experts in contact lenses from both ophthalmology and optometry and have contributed chapters covering the physiology of contact lens wear, fitting techniques for rigid lenses, aphakic and cosmetic hydrogel lenses, lenses for the correction of presbyopia, therapeutic lenses, extended-wear lenses, application of lenses to special refractive problems, lens-related complications, and contact lens solutions. The chapters are, in general, well-written, complete, nicely illustrated, and comprehensively annotated. The subject matter of the book is heavily weighted toward hydrogel lenses, although rigid lens applications are covered adequately. The rationale for the order of the chapters is not readily apparent; the book, nonetheless, provides the reader with a good overall summary of contact lens practice, and contains current
This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Marburg in January 1986 to honor Professor Wolfgang Straub.
Colour Vision Deficiencies VIII. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Avignon 1985. Edited by G. Verriest. Dordrecht, The Nether lands, 1987. 524 pages, illustrated. $124.50 This volume is one of a series produced by the International Research Group on Color Vision Deficiencies. It is a collection of the papers offered at their June 1985 symposium. The book is a gold mine of ideas and techniques for color vision scientists and should be in every university library.