Description

Key Features

• A comprehensive ophthalmology textbook in two volumes comprising 214 extremely well-researched and well-referenced illustrated chapters spread over 19 sections. • Incorporates recent advances and conceptual challenges along with basic and translational aspects of ophthalmology. • This edition has integrated many contemporary practical ophthalmic healthcare issues, such as accreditation, patient and electronic database safety, health information systems, administration and management, hospital infection control, ethical and medicolegal issues in ophthalmology and clinical aspects of ophthalmic diseases, starting from historical perspectives to current standards of practice. • This book has approximately 4000 high-quality illustrations. • Extensive additions to the section on basic, applied, diagnostic and translational ophthalmology, where applied ophthalmic specialties such as ocular genetics, biochemistry, pathology, microbiology, ophthalmic imaging and applications of artificial intelligence in ophthalmology have been elaborated. • The sections on Pediatric Ophthalmology, oculoplastics, uvea and trauma have been extensively expanded. • Three sections on clinical trials in ophthalmology, ophthalmic healthcare and a completely pictorial atlas comprising pathology, and microbiology slide images and neuroimaging images have been added with detailed descriptions and explanations.