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Book Review Book Review • Livre nouveau • Buchbesprechung F.A. Jakobiec, J. Sigel man haphazard sequence o f chapters as well as duplication Advanced Techniques in Ocular Surgery o f subject matter in different parts o f the book. This Saunders, Philadelphia 1984 makes it unnecessarily difficult for the reader to find X I X + 691 pp., £110.- his way. Refractive surgery is found in chapters 1,4-8, ISBN 0-7216-1047-1 and 38. Chapters 2 and 3 are related to other corneal problems. Surely all three chapters on radial kcratoto- my should be together and not so widely separated by I find this book to be one of the most difficult 1 quite different material. Chapters on irradiation and have been asked to review. The concept of early pub­ laser surgery are also dispersed and could be better lication o f selected papers dealing with advances in grouped together. One author describes the use of the ocular surgery is good. It enables surgeons to keep laser as non-surgical, which makes the reader question the inclusion of his and some other chapters in a themselves informed o f developments. Commonly these papers will be presented at ophthalmic surgical surgical publication. There is an interesting chapter on the medical management o f the diabetic patient with meetings and published as unreviewed reports or sub­ mitted to established journals. The selection proce­ retinopathy, which does not describe any advanced dure is im portant, and in this book, which the editors technique o f ocular surgery. Having made these criticisms, it must be said that describe as an experimental hybridization between a journal and a text, the selection is based on contribu­ the editors have made a selection of many well-known authors who are accepted authorities in their field. A tions at a meeting in New York in 1982 with addition­ al chapters contributed by invitation. Some o f these majority of the chapters are excellent and there is a are longer than could be delivered in the restricted great deal of valuable information contained in them. time allotted at meetings and longer than is common­ It is useful to be able to refer to this book for current ly accepted in standard journals. As a result, the con­ advances in ocular surgical techniques, but such is the tributions in this book range from monographs with speed of advance that a new edition will be needed quite soon. It will have enhanced value if the editors extensive bibliography to short personal com munica­ tions with no references. pay more attention to the arrangement of the material The m anner in which material has been collected and are doubly selective in what they include. and prepared for publication has resulted in a very M.J. Roper-Hall, Birmingham http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ophthalmologica Karger

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Ophthalmologica , Volume 192 (2): 1 – Jan 1, 2010
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Karger
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© 1986 S. Karger AG, Basel
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0030-3755
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10.1159/000309622
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Book Review • Livre nouveau • Buchbesprechung F.A. Jakobiec, J. Sigel man haphazard sequence o f chapters as well as duplication Advanced Techniques in Ocular Surgery o f subject matter in different parts o f the book. This Saunders, Philadelphia 1984 makes it unnecessarily difficult for the reader to find X I X + 691 pp., £110.- his way. Refractive surgery is found in chapters 1,4-8, ISBN 0-7216-1047-1 and 38. Chapters 2 and 3 are related to other corneal problems. Surely all three chapters on radial kcratoto- my should be together and not so widely separated by I find this book to be one of the most difficult 1 quite different material. Chapters on irradiation and have been asked to review. The concept of early pub­ laser surgery are also dispersed and could be better lication o f selected papers dealing with advances in grouped together. One author describes the use of the ocular surgery is good. It enables surgeons to keep laser as non-surgical, which makes the reader question the inclusion of his and some other chapters in a themselves informed o f developments. Commonly these papers will be presented at ophthalmic surgical surgical publication. There is an interesting chapter on the medical management o f the diabetic patient with meetings and published as unreviewed reports or sub­ mitted to established journals. The selection proce­ retinopathy, which does not describe any advanced dure is im portant, and in this book, which the editors technique o f ocular surgery. Having made these criticisms, it must be said that describe as an experimental hybridization between a journal and a text, the selection is based on contribu­ the editors have made a selection of many well-known authors who are accepted authorities in their field. A tions at a meeting in New York in 1982 with addition­ al chapters contributed by invitation. Some o f these majority of the chapters are excellent and there is a are longer than could be delivered in the restricted great deal of valuable information contained in them. time allotted at meetings and longer than is common­ It is useful to be able to refer to this book for current ly accepted in standard journals. As a result, the con­ advances in ocular surgical techniques, but such is the tributions in this book range from monographs with speed of advance that a new edition will be needed quite soon. It will have enhanced value if the editors extensive bibliography to short personal com munica­ tions with no references. pay more attention to the arrangement of the material The m anner in which material has been collected and are doubly selective in what they include. and prepared for publication has resulted in a very M.J. Roper-Hall, Birmingham

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