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by Gisbert Richard, MD, Gisele Soubrane, MD, and Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD, 412 pp, with 890 illus, $169, ISBN 0-86577-712-8, New York, NY, Thieme Medical Publishers Inc, 1998.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:450-451.

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This atlas is written predominantly by a German ophthalmologist in cooperation with a French and an American author. The work is divided into 20 chapters, the first 3 chapters of which are dedicated to the basic science and interpretation of fluorescein angiography. Two chapters, authored by Dr Yannuzzi, are dedicated to interpretation of indocyanine green angiography and an extensive discussion of occult choroidal neovascularization. Dr Soubrane wrote the chapter discussing age-related macular diseases.

The title of the book defines it as both a textbook and an atlas; however, the book is more atlas than textbook. The most in-depth discussions of disease entities are in the chapters cowritten by the 3 authors. Most of the remaining chap ters consist of pictures with an adjacent brief discussion. The chapter on age-related macular disease is the most detailed discussion of any topic presented in the book; the accompanying photographs are well annotated to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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