40 Vitreous Surgery
10.1055/b-0037-149098 40 Vitreous SurgeryThanos D. Papakostas, Dean Eliott, and Ingrid U. Scott 40.1 Introduction Robert Machemer is considered the father of modern vitreous surgery as he developed the instrumentation and…
35 Posterior Segment Complications of Anterior Segment Surgery
10.1055/b-0037-149093 35 Posterior Segment Complications of Anterior Segment SurgeryThalmon R. Campagnoli, William E. Smiddy, and Harry W. Flynn Jr. 35.1 Postoperative Endophthalmitis Infectious endophthalmitis following ocular surgery is an uncommon…
30 Exudative and Tractional Retinal Detachments
10.1055/b-0037-149088 30 Exudative and Tractional Retinal DetachmentsMatthew D. Cooke, Robert A. Mittra, and Dennis P. Han 30.1 Introduction Exudative retinal detachment refers to separation of the neurosensory retina from the…
24 Infectious Chorioretinal Inflammatory Conditions
10.1055/b-0037-149082 24 Infectious Chorioretinal Inflammatory ConditionsJanet L. Davis 24.1 Introduction Bacterial, viral, protozoan, and helminthic infections of the posterior segment have characteristic ophthalmoscopic features that help clinicians deduce the type…
38 Posterior Segment Drug Delivery
10.1055/b-0037-149096 38 Posterior Segment Drug DeliverySumit Sharma and Glenn J. Jaffe 38.1 Introduction Posterior segment pathology can be treated with medications delivered by a variety of routes; however, the anatomy…
37 Intravitreal Injections
10.1055/b-0037-149095 37 Intravitreal InjectionsIngrid U. Scott and Harry W. Flynn Jr. 37.1 Introduction Intravitreal injection was reported by Ohm in 1911 as a technique to introduce air for retinal tamponade…
33 Posterior Segment Manifestations of Systemic Trauma
10.1055/b-0037-149091 33 Posterior Segment Manifestations of Systemic TraumaJason Hsu and Carl D. Regillo 33.1 Purtscher’s Retinopathy In 1910, Purtscher described a constellation of changes in the posterior pole of two…
28 Other Retinal, Retinal Pigment Epithelial, and Choroidal Tumors
10.1055/b-0037-149086 28 Other Retinal, Retinal Pigment Epithelial, and Choroidal TumorsCarol L. Shields and Jerry A. Shields 28.1 Introduction Several benign and malignant neoplasms can occur in the retina and choroid….
29 Retinal Tears and Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachments
10.1055/b-0037-149087 29 Retinal Tears and Rhegmatogenous Retinal DetachmentsStephen G. Schwartz, Harry W. Flynn Jr., William F. Mieler, and James S. Tiedeman Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment is caused by one or more…
31 Degenerative Retinoschisis
10.1055/b-0037-149089 31 Degenerative RetinoschisisDavid C. Reed and Sunir J. Garg 31.1 Definitions and Histology Degenerative (also called acquired or senile) retinoschisis is an acquired splitting of the retinal layers of…
