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by Robert Pineda II, MD, Alejandro Espaillat, MD, Victor L. Perez, MD, and Susannah G. Rowe, MD, MPH, 176 pp, with illus, $49, Thorofare, NJ, Slack Inc, 2001.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:1110.

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I was asked to review this book shortly after I had started my first job as a comprehensive ophthalmologist specializing in cataract surgery. In the operating room, I no longer had a seasoned eye surgeon at my side to help me avoid making a complex cataract surgery more complicated. In my outreach practice, there was no other ophthalmologist to assist me in the preoperative evaluation and postoperative management of patients with complicated cataracts. The Complicated Cataract found its way to me at the perfect time.

After the initial chapter on determining and documenting the appropriateness of cataract surgery, this handbook from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston) follows a consistent chapter format. Each chapter leads from preoperative strategies, to perioperative considerations and techniques, to postoperative issues, and finally to alternatives and key points. This format allows each chapter to stand on its own.

Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 focus . . . [Full Text of this Article]