THE CORNEA SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I FUNDAMENTALS -- SECTION I BASIC SCIENCE -- THE ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY OF THE HUMAN CORNEA, LIMBUS, CONJUNCTIVA, AND ADNEXA -- CORNEAL PHYSIOLOGY -- BASIC IMMUNOLOGY -- MORPHOLOGY AND PATHOLOGIC RESPONSE IN CORNEAL AND CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASE -- CORNEAL ANGIOGENESIS -- SECTION II EXAMINATION AND EVALUATION TECHNIQUES -- SLITLAMP BIOMICROSCOPY AND PHOTOGRAPHY -- CORNEAL PACHYMETRY -- KERATOMETRY -- CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY -- CLINICAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY -- CLINICAL SPECULAR MICROSCOPY -- SECTION III EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CORNEA AND EXTERNAL DISEASES -- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MAJOR CORNEA AND EXTERNAL DISEASES -- PART II CLINICAL TOPICS -- SECTION IV INFECTIOUS DISEASE -- BACTERIOLOGY -- BACTERIAL KERATITIS -- BACTERIAL CONJUNCTIVITIS -- VIRAL DISEASE OF THE OCULAR ANTERIOR SEGMENT: BASIC SCIENCE AND CLINICAL DISEASE -- FUNGAL KERATITIS, CONJUNCTIVITIS, AND CANALICULITIS: MYCOLOGY -- FUNGAL INFECTIONS -- PARASITIC KERATITIS AND CONJUNCTIVITIS -- CHLAMYDIAL KERATITIS AND CONJUNCTIVITIS -- SECTION V IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASE -- ATOPIC CONJUNCTIVITIS -- CICATRIZING CONJUNCTIVITIS -- CONJUNCTIVITIS AND DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY -- PHLYCTENULAR KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS -- CONNECTIVE TISSUE/COLLAGEN VASCULAR DISEASES -- MOOREN'S ULCER -- SCLERITIS -- SECTION VI OCULAR SURFACE DISEASE -- KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA: INTRODUCTION -- KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA: PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE TEAR FILM -- KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA: CLINICAL ASPECTS -- SJÖGREN'S SYNDROME -- BLEPHARITIS AND MEIBOMIAN GLAND DYSFUNCTION -- RECURRENT EROSION SYNDROME -- SUPERIOR LIMBIC KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS -- LIGNEOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS -- ROSACEA -- THYGESON'S SUPERFICIAL PUNCTATE KERATITIS -- FILAMENTARY KERATITIS -- CLIMATIC KERATOPATHY -- DACRYOADENITIS -- SECTION VII METABOLIC AND CONGENITAL DISEASE.

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES AND METABOLIC DISEASES AFFECTING THE CONJUNCTIVA AND CORNEA -- SECTION VIII CONJUNCTIVAL CORNEAL DYSPLASIA AND MALIGNANCY -- OVERVIEW OF TUMORS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA AND CORNEA -- EPITHELIAL TUMORS INVOLVING THE OCULAR SURFACE -- PIGMENTED TUMORS OF THE CORNEA AND CONJUNCTIVA -- SECTION IX TRAUMA -- CHEMICAL TRAUMA -- PHYSICAL INJURIES OF THE CORNEA -- SECTION X CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES AND DEGENERATIONS -- ANTERIOR CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES: DYSTROPHIES OF THE EPITHELIUM, EPITHELIAL BASEMENT MEMBRANE, AND BOWMAN'S LAYER -- STROMAL AND PRE-DESCEMET'S DYSTROPHIES -- CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHIES -- CORNEAL AND CONJUNCTIVAL DEGENERATIONS -- ECTATIC DISORDERS OF THE CORNEA -- SECTION XI CORNEAL AND CONJUNCTIVAL MANIFESTATIONS OF DIETARY DEFICIENCIES -- CORNEAL AND CONJUNCTIVAL MANIFESTATIONS OF DIETARY DEFICIENCIES -- SECTION XII CONTACT LENSES -- THE ROLE OF CONTACT LENSES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CORNEAL DISORDERS -- PART III CORNEAL, SCLERAL, AND CONJUNCTIVAL SURGERY -- SECTION XIII SUPPORTIVE AND PROTECTIVE -- TISSUE ADHESIVES -- TECTONIC CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION -- CONJUNCTIVAL FLAPS -- SCLERAL TRANSPLANTATION -- SECTION XIV REHABILITATIVE -- OCULAR SURFACE REHABILITATION -- EYE PLASTICS CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE ANTERIOR SEGMENT SURGEON: INDICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES -- AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION -- LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION -- PTERYGIUM AND ITS SURGERY -- SECTION XV CORNEAL VISUAL REHABILITATION SURGERY -- PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY -- LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY -- POSTERIOR LAMELLAR ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY -- INTRASTROMAL IMPLANTS FOR KERATOCONUS -- PHOTOTHERAPEUTIC KERATECTOMY -- KERATOPROSTHESIS SURGERY -- SECTION XVI KERATOREFRACTIVE SURGERY -- THE BIOLOGY OF CORNEAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY -- PREOPERATIVE CONSIDERATIONS: PATIENT SELECTION AND EVALUATION -- PREOPERATIVE CONSIDERATIONS: CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY -- RADIAL KERATOTOMY.

INCISIONAL SURGERY FOR NATURAL AND SURGICALLY-INDUCED ASTIGMATISM -- EPIKERATOPLASTY -- KERATOMILEUSIS AND AUTOMATED LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY -- INTRASTROMAL CORNEAL IMPLANTS -- EXCIMER LASER SURFACE ABLATION: PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY (PRK) AND LASER SUBEPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS (LASEK) -- LASIK INSTRUMENTATION: MICROKERATOMES, EXCIMER LASERS, AND WAVEFRONT ANALYZERS -- LASIK TECHNIQUES AND OUTCOMES -- LASIK OUTCOMES IN MYOPIA AND HYPEROPIA -- LASIK OUTCOMES IN ASTIGMATISM -- LASIK COMBINED WITH OTHER PROCEDURES -- WAVEFRONT-GUIDED CUSTOM LASIK AND LASEK: TECHNIQUES AND OUTCOMES -- LASIK COMPLICATIONS: ETIOLOGY, PREVENTION, AND MANAGEMENT -- ULTRASHORT PULSED LASERS IN CORNEAL APPLICATIONS -- INDEX.