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by William P. D. Chen, MD, 340 pp, with illus, with CD-ROM, $179, ISBN 0-7506-7574-8, Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier, 2006.

Cat Nguyen Burkat, MD, Reviewer; Heebae Ahn, MD, Reviewer

Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(8):1143-1144.

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Asian Blepharoplasty and the Eyelid Crease, 2nd Edition, is an update to the author's previous book, Asian Blepharoplasty, published in 1994. The author recognized that an updated version was necessary to describe the evolution of his personal experiences as well as to elaborate on the revision and correction of suboptimal results in more detail. In particular, the glide zone technique, beveled approach, and midlamellar clearance technique in revisional Asian blepharoplasty are demonstrated through excellent schematic diagrams and vivid intraoperative and postoperative photographs.

The book is organized into 20 chapters, beginning with fundamentals like the history of Asian blepharoplasty, eyelid terminology, and Asian eyelid anatomy. The remaining chapters are divided into surgical techniques, pearls and pitfalls, wound closure, personal observations, and the more advanced art of the revisional surgical procedure and complications. Each chapter is superbly illustrated with pages of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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