TY - BOOK ID - 14296170 TI - The Glaucomas. AU - Sampaolesi, Roberto. AU - Sampaolesi, Juan Roberto. AU - Zarate, Jorge. PY - 2009 SN - 3540691448 9786611913816 1281913812 3540691464 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, DB - UniCat KW - Glaucoma -- Diagnosis. KW - Glaucoma -- Treatment. KW - Glaucoma. KW - Age Groups KW - Ocular Hypertension KW - Persons KW - Eye Diseases KW - Named Groups KW - Diseases KW - Child KW - Glaucoma KW - Infant KW - Medicine KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Ophthalmology & Optometry KW - Glaucoma in children. KW - Pediatric ophthalmology. KW - Congenital glaucoma KW - Pediatric glaucoma KW - Medicine. KW - General practice (Medicine). KW - Ophthalmology. KW - Pathology. KW - Pediatrics. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - General Practice / Family Medicine. KW - Ophthalmology KW - Pediatric ophthalmology KW - Family medicine. KW - Family practice (Medicine) KW - General practice (Medicine) KW - Physicians (General practice) KW - Disease (Pathology) KW - Medical sciences KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - Paediatrics KW - Pediatric medicine KW - Children KW - Eye KW - Health and hygiene UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14296170 AB - In recent decades, the prognosis of congenital glaucoma has completely changed. Nowadays surgical results are very good and enable children with pediatric glaucoma to integrate entirely into society as adults. Based on the author’s cumulative experience of more than 50 years and 860 patients operated on for congenital glaucoma, this well-structured and lavishly illustrated textbook-atlas covers all aspects of congenital and infantile glaucoma. It enables the reader to learn about the: Original method for examining newborns under general anaesthesia in the slit-lamp Signs and symptoms of the disease and the differential diagnosis Role and importance of the echometry value for early diagnosis Gonioscopy results and the three types of congenital glaucomas (pure, refractory and late) Type of surgery to be performed in each case, with the evaluation and case-studies by follow-up long-term results. Written by renowned international experts of the field, this book will become the gold standard in the field of pediatric and congenital glaucomas. ER -