The Sclera

• Main Authors: Sainz de la Maza, Maite (Author), Tauber, Joseph (Author), Foster, C. Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.
• Physical Description: XIII, 320 p. 165 illus., 33 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781441965028

The Sclera is the definitive text on the diagnosis and treatment of scleral diseases, with in-depth chapters on non-infectious scleritis, infectious sclertitis, non-inflammatory diseases of the sclera, and systemic implications of scleral disease. Basic physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry are addressed as well. Written for the ophthalmologist, the revised and updated new edition of The Sclera contains the most current information available on newer characterizations of the composition of the sclera, immune derangements of it, and success in medical and surgical treatment of the inflammatory diseases of the sclera.