Screen LibraryKeratoconus : Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment /
As a degenerative disorder of the eye, keratoconus can cause substantial distortion of vision, with multiple images, streaking, and sensitivity to light all reported by patients. Keratoconus: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment updates ophthalmologists about the innovations that have occurred...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Essentials in Ophthalmology,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43881-8 |
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As a degenerative disorder of the eye, keratoconus can cause substantial distortion of vision, with multiple images, streaking, and sensitivity to light all reported by patients. Keratoconus: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment updates ophthalmologists about the innovations that have occurred within the last decade, discussing the diagnostic imaging techniques that have been developed for keratoconus diagnosis, understanding of how examination techniques are related to the evolution of keratoconus, and how to indicate the different therapeutic tools that have been created for keratoco |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XIX,371pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319438818 |
| Index Number: | RE1 |
| CLC: | R777.2 |
| Contents: | Part 1: Introduction -- 1 What is Keratoconus? A New Approach to a Not So Rare Disease -- 2 Modern Pathogenesis of Keratoconus: Genomics and Proteomics -- 3 Epidemiology of Keratoconus -- 4 Histopathology (From Keratoconus Pathology to Pathogenesis) -- 5 Keratoconus in Children -- Part 2: Diagnostic Tools in Keratoconus -- 6 Instrumentation for Diagnosis of Keratoconus -- 7 Analyzing Tomographic Corneal Elevation for Detecting Ectasia -- 8 Analyzing Tomographic Thickness for Detecting Corneal Ectatic Diseases -- 9 New Diagnostic Approach of Corneal Topography Maps -- 10 Geometrical Analysis |