Book review - of some interest?

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Hi

I refer to this web site:

http://www.escrs.org/eurotimes/june%202002/Inyourgoodbooks.asp

I came across this web site - it is a review for a book called:

Colour Atlas of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery By AG Tyers and JRO Collin Butterworth & Heinemann, Oxford, UK, Second Edition 2001 Hardback / 355 pages / Colour photographs ISBN: 0-7506-4254-8 / £130.00

I mention it because I know that some people in this group are in the medical profession or have access to specialist medical libraries. In any case, the book review is an interesting read.

Here are 2 extracts from the book review:

[Extract 1]

The authors are two well-established British ophthalmic surgeons. Tyers, FRCS, FRCOphth, qualified in London in 1970. He currently works as a consultant ophthalmologist in the District Hospital in Salisbury, and as a private practitioner in nearby New Hall Hospital. His co-author, Collin, FRCS, FRCOphth, qualified at Cambridge University in 1967 and currently works at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He also has private patients at a clinic in Harley Street. Both have an interest in ophthalmic plastic surgery and eyelid surgery, and publish regularly in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.This Atlas was a successful collaboration first published by Churchill Livingstone in 1995. During the intervening years, the field of plastic surgery in connection with the eye has evolved more than enough to justify a new edition. Surgeons have developed new procedures and discarded others. Curiously, one of the trends that has changed direction since the first edition is the preference for repairing procedures using autologous materials, away from preserved tissues, in accordance with the perception of increased risk of infection transmission.

[Extract 2]

Eyelid abnormalities are dealt with briefly under the headings trichiasis and distichiasis. Several procedures to treat ptosis are presented, with short but clear rationales for the choice of approach suggested. Before and after photos are well used. Blepharoplasty is presented as a different chapter, but cross-referenced with ptosis. Eyebrow retraction and correction of every muscle around the orbit all find a section or sub-section to themselves.

It is interesting to note that even since 1995 there has been a change in treatments favoured by surgeons.

Regards

Shireen Mohandes

London, England