Chapter 34 Gene Therapy for Retinal Disease Jean Bennett, Albert M. Maguire For additional online content visit http://www.expertconsult.com Background: preclinical gene therapy studies Gene therapy holds great promise for the…
Chapter 146 Charged-Particle Irradiation of Uveal Melanoma Evangelos S. Gragoudas, Anne Marie Lane, Ivana K. Kim Introduction Radiotherapy is currently the most widely used method for treating intraocular melanomas, having…
Chapter 44 Abnormalities of Cone and Rod Function David M. Wu, Amani A. Fawzi For additional online content visit http://www.expertconsult.com This chapter will review a genetically heterogeneous group of retinal…
Chapter 135 Melanocytoma of the Optic Disc Jerry A. Shields, Leonard Joffe, Carol L. Shields General considerations Melanocytoma of the optic disc, a lesion best known to ophthalmologists, has received…
Chapter 152 Choroidal Osteoma Carol L. Shields, Gary C. Brown, Sanjay Sharma, Jerry A. Shields General considerations The presence of bone within the eye is unusual and can develop in…
Chapter 153 Circumscribed Choroidal Hemangioma Shelley Day, Prithvi Mruthyunjaya Introduction Choroidal hemangiomas are benign vascular hamartomas which occur in two forms: circumscribed and diffuse. The circumscribed form is typically an…
Chapter 55 Macular Telangiectasia Michael Engelbert, Emily Y. Chew, Lawrence A. Yannuzzi Introduction Macular telangiectasia (mac tel), or idiopathic perifoveal or juxtafoveal telangiectasia, includes several, different vascular diseases affecting the…
Chapter 29 Cellular Effects of Detachment and Reattachment on the Neural Retina and the Retinal Pigment Epithelium Louisa Wickham, Geoffrey P. Lewis, David G. Charteris, Steven K. Fisher Introduction In…
Chapter 70 Ocular Histoplasmosis Justis P. Ehlers, Barbara S. Hawkins, Andrew P. Schachat Historical perspective In 1942 Reid provided the first description of histoplasmosis-associated ophthalmic abnormalities from a patient with…
Chapter 78 Sarcoidosis Yasir Jamal Sepah, Douglas A. Jabs, Quan Dong Nguyen Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology characterized by intrathoracic involvement. The disease was first described…
