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vol 5, edited by Stephen L. Bosniak, 463 pp, with illus, Elmsford, NY, Pergamon Press Inc, 1986, $91.

Jemshed A. Khan, MD, Reviewer
Kansas City, Kansas

Arch Ophthalmol. 1988;106(5):595.

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Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery ranks among the newest and smallest of the ophthalmic subspecialties. Therefore, readers may be amused to learn of an entire book devoted exclusively to the history and traditions of oculoplastic surgery. However, for the ophthalmologist who also considers himself or herself a scholar, historian, or oculoplastic surgeon, this book provides rare and unadulterated pleasure.

This is a multiauthored text and the chapters offered are diverse. The reader gains insight into the antiquity of medical knowledge as exemplified by Sushruta's fourth century BC illustrations of forehead pedicle flaps, which are still used for nasal reconstruction. The evolution of repair and treatment techniques for ptosis, lacrimal surgery, entropion, ectropion, blepharoplasty, orbit, and reconstructive surgery are traced in various chapters, as is the history of the development of oculoplastic surgery in North America, Australia, and Europe. The discussions concerning the history of lacrimal surgery and ptosis repair are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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