Strabismus Surgery. Surgical Techniques in Ophthalmology

Key Features

• Features explanations of surgical techniques combined with high-quality video clips that emphasize and illuminate key points.
• Includes pros and cons, pearls and pitfalls, and tricks-of-the-trade for all techniques.
• Presents detailed coverage of the main surgical areas in ophthalmic practice today.
• Offers a consistent step-by-step approach to each procedure.
• Lists equipment and instrumentation required for each procedure in appropriate chapters.
• Uses full-color illustrations throughout each title.

Table of Contents

Section 1 - Surgical Techniques

1. Surgical instruments
2. Common surgical techniques
3. Fixed suture rectus muscle recession techniques
4 . Fixed suture rectus muscle resection techniques
5. Adjustable squint surgery
6. Reoperation techniques
7. Transposition surgery
8. Posterior fixation suture techniques
9. Inferior oblique surgery
10. Superior oblique surgery
11. Chemodenervation techniques
12. Anaesthesia for strabismus surgery

Section 2 – Surgical Strategies

13. Infantile esotropia
14. Partially accommodative esotropia
15. Intermittent exotropia
16. Duanes syndrome
17. Browns syndrome
18. Dissociated vertical deviation
19. Superior oblique palsy
20. VIth nerve palsy
21. IIIrd nerve palsy
22. Thyroid eye disease
23. Orbital fractures
24. Nystagmus

Author Information

By John D. Ferris, FRCOphth, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Gloucestershire Eye Unit, Cheltenham, UK; and Peter E. J. Davies, FRANZCO, MPH, Hunter Eye Surgery, Broadmeadow, Australia