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This is the first reference textbook to address the considerable challenges of managing cataracts in children. Content covers all details of pediatric cataracts and surgical techniques to treat and prevent visual impairment. Readers explore patient work-up, diagnosis, surgical techniques, and potential complications. Newly emerging topics, such as temporary polypseudophakia, multifocal lenses, implant biocompatibility, intracapsular rings, and the use of capsular dyes in pediatric cataract surgery, are discussed in detail. Numerous tables, line diagrams, and high-quality photographs clarify concepts. FEATURES: 1st book of its kind devoted to this topic Author is international expert in this area Thorough review of topic, including patient work-up, diagnosis, surgical techniques, and potential complications Numerous tables, line diagrams, and high-quality photographs clarify concepts

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American Journal of Ophthalmology -- The first such text and it fills this void in the ophthalmic literature very successfully. The book could have been easily and appropriately titled, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Pediatric Cataract Surgery. Dr. Wilson has been one of the acknowledged leaders in the rapid evolution in pediatric cataract surgical management over the past fifteen years. He and his coeditors and coauthors, Drs. Trivedi and Pandey, have assembled an international group of scientist authors, each of whom has contributed to this book in specific areas of expertise. The book is well illustrated with many diagrams and color photographs. The void that existed in the ophthalmic literature regarding pediatric cataract surgery has now been filled nicely. Anyone who performs cataract surgery in infants and children or is even contemplating doing so, should avail themselves of the information in Pediatric Cataract Surgery: Techniques Complications, and Management. -American Journal of Ophthalmology

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