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Year Book of Ophthalmology 2004

Editor in Chief: Christopher J Rapuano

345 pp.
Published by Mosby, 2004

ISBN: 0323015824

Reviewed by Gary Leber in 2004

 

The Year Book of Ophthalmology 2004 once again lives up to the high expectations set by previous Year Books. The format is immediately recognisable with an overview summarising developments occurring throughout the previous year at the start of each chapter.

The chapters are:

  1. Cataract: Cataract Surgery 2003
  2. Refractive surgery: What is the story with pupil size and refractive surgery
  3. Glaucoma: Reaping the benefits of randomised controlled trials
  4. Cornea: Prions and ophthalmic surgery
  5. Retina: Intravitreal triamcynolone: a growing fan club
  6. Oculoplastic surgery: Prion disease: just the facts please
  7. Pediatric ophthalmology: Emerging developments in the management of amblyopia
  8. Neuro-ophthalmology: Optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis treatment: the train is leaving the station
  9. Imaging: Introduction
  10. Ocular Oncology: The Philadelphia classification for retinoblastoma
  11. Pathology: Ophthalmic pathology: a troubled future
    and a new chapter:
  12. Socio-economics: Expectations

Reading just these concise summaries gives an excellent overview in a short space of time; the discussion after each article or group of articles is that much more valuable, however, and well worth the extra time.

The peer-reviewed articles abstracted in each chapter are chosen from 24 key ophthalmology and ophthalmic subspeciality journals.The articles are chosen to cover latest developments, topics of current interest or to stress an important issue.

To my knowledge, there is no other single publication that covers all the major ophthalmic subspeciality developments of the previous year. It also maintains an extremely high standard from year to year.

I highly recommend this book to all ophthalmologists and ophthalmic trainees. Do not be discouraged by the seeming bulk of 345 pages - the benefits far outweigh the minimal time needed to peruse this book.

Gary L. Leber
MB BS FRANZCO, FRACS, FRCOphth

If an article is of particular interest, a copy of the full article can be obtained from the library.

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