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Retina
Retina E-dition, vol 1: Basic Science and Inherited Retinal Disease; vol 2: Medical Retina; vol 3: Surgical Retina
edited by Stephen J. Ryan, David R. Hinton, Andrew P. Schachat, and C. P. Wilkinson, 4th ed, includes Web site access, 2654 pp, with illus, $629, ISBN 0-323-04091-8 (textbook only $525, ISBN 0-323-02598-6), Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Mosby, 2006.
JAMA. 2006;296:2031.
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Stephen Ryan has done it again. The fourth edition of this three-volume textbook is again a superb, comprehensive presentation and detailed compendium of current knowledge of the vitreous and retina. One might think it impossible to write more than 2600 pages on such a small structure, but the complexity of the retina and its vital role in the physiology of sight warrant this amount of material. Furthermore, knowledge of the retina, its diseases, and medical and surgical treatments has grown since the third edition was published in 2001.
The new edition is again divided into three volumes. Volume 1 is subdivided into two parts: "Basic Science and Inherited Retinal Disease," edited by David R. Hinton, MD, and "Tumors," edited by Andrew P. Schachat, MD. Schachat also edits volume 2, "Medical Retina," and C. P. Wilkinson, MD, edits volume 3, "Surgical Retina." The 355 contributors of the text's 156 chapters are . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Jay I. Perlman, MD, PhD, Reviewer
jperlma@lumc.edu
Mark J. Daily, MD, Reviewer
Edward Hines, Jr, Veterans Affairs Hospital
Hines, Ill
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, Ill
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