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Fison’s Retinal Detachment Surgery, 3rd Edition
by Arthur Lim Siew Ming, MBBS, MD, FAMS, FRCS, FRCSE, FRACS, Ang Beng Chong, MBBS, FAMS, FRCSE, FRACS, Lim Tock Han, MBBS, FAMS, FRCSE, MMed(Ophth), Ong Sze Guan, MBBS, FAMS, FRCSE, FRCOphth, Ronald L. S. Yeoh, MBBS, FAMS, FRCSG, FRCSE, FRCOphth, eds, pp 178, with illus, $32.88, ISBN 981-259-364-0, Elsevier, Singapore, Singapore, 2006.
James C. H. Tan, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(8):1144.
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This is the third edition of a book that grew out of Dr Lorimer Fison's courses on retinal detachment surgery in Singapore in 1975. Dr Fison, who passed away in 2004, was a retinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, England. One of the chief aims of the original courses he conducted was to help equip "occasional retinal detachment surgeons to attain good results in the majority of cases."
Fison's Retinal Detachment Surgery, 3rd Edition, is a concise and easy-to-read primer of retinal detachment surgery. It is copiously illustrated and takes the form of a brief atlas on the subject.
The book is divided into 2 main sections. The first section introduces the clinical evaluation of retinal detachment and key approaches to surgical repair. The description of surgical techniques is weighed toward scleral buckle surgery and includes pitfalls to avoid and practical . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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