Management of Orbital and Ocular Adnexal Tumors and Inflammations

Download or read book Management of Orbital and Ocular Adnexal Tumors and Inflammations written by Joseph A., Jr. Mauriello and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to provide the busy ophthal inftammation, lacrimal gland tumors and inftamma mologist with a practieal guide to the management tion, lacrimal sac tumors and inftammation, and of lid and ocular adnexal disease. The book encom lid tumors and inftammations. passes more than tumors simply because other in This book provides the ophthalmologist with a ftammatory conditions may mimic tumors in their step-by-step approach to patients with lid and orbital presentation and vice versa. It is not meant to be tumors and inftammations. an encyclopedie, definitive work on a single subject, organized around individual disease entities; instead Acknowledgments it approaches the patient much as clinician does. It concentrates on the patient and considers various disease processes logieally. Work -up, differential We wish to thank all the referring doctors who diagnosis, and initial treatment are discussed. have allowed us to treat their patients with orbital When any patient presents with an orbital or an and ocular adnexal disease and without whom a ocular adnexal mass, the question that needs to be book of this type would have been impossible. We answered is whether the process is due to inftamma also would like to give special thanks to our teachers, Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman and Dr. Byron Smith.