Phacoemulsification: principles and techniques (facoemulsificación: principios y técnicas)

This guide focuses on technique, with the specifics and knowledge necessary to understand all elements and essentials of phacoemulsification. This text provides the background in a single resource. In the first section of the book, Dr Buratto examines the phacoemulsification procedure, addressing physical principles, incisions, IOLs, viscoelastic substances, complications and more. He looks closely at the many complex details involved in this procedure and breaks them down to examine each one. The second section of the book is a collection of chapters on individual techniques of phacoemulsification by 27 internationally known expert surgeons. The surgeons discuss at length their unique approaches to this procedure, and the specific knowledge and techniques they incorporate into the operation. Contributors include: Rapisarda Antonello, Steve Arshinoff, Stefano Baiocchi, Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima, Stephen F. Brint, Aldo Caporossi, James A. Davison, Henry F. Edelhauser, Paul H. Ernest, I. Howard Fine, Paolo Frezzotti, Michael T. Furlong, Howard V. Gimbel, David B. Glasser, Harry B. Grabow, Ilvo Gratton, Tsutomu Hara, Charles D. Kelman, Paul S. Koch, Kunihiro Nagahara, Thomas Neuhann, Robert H. Osher, Tetsuro Oshika, Richard Packard, Jan H. Pameijer, Bo Philipson, Vittorio Picardo, Matteo Piovella, Donald N. Serafano, John Shepherd, Yasuhiko Shiokawa and Ronald M. Stasiuk.