Macular Hole and Macular Hole Retinal Detachment
Myopic traction maculopathy (MTM) is a common complication of pathologic myopia. It is caused by outward tractional force due to a posterior staphyloma combined with inward tractional force of posterior vitreous. Among various lesions of MTM, macular hole
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Atlas of Pathologic Myopia
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Atlas of Pathologic Myopia
Kyoko Ohno-Matsui Editor
Atlas of Pathologic Myopia
Editor Kyoko Ohno-Matsui Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Tokyo Medical and Dental University Tokyo Japan
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Foreword
The great Takashi Tokoro, MD, was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine. He produced the first atlas of myopia, entitled Atlas of Posterior Fundus Changes in Myopia that was published in 1998. This set of insights into myopia was established through careful clinical examination and documented by fundus photography and angiography. The book was a milestone, as was the 1985 book, The Myopias, by Dr. Brian Curtin. These two volumes influenced generations of ophthalmologists concerning a disease that is one of the leading causes of vision loss and blindness around the world. Ophthalmology is a curious subject. It is a study of the eye and its diseases that uses written or spoken words for basic communication but relies on visual imagery to communicate much more profound insights. Even the words we chose to explain understanding, such as insight, reveal how imagery, visual or mental, are fundamental to human understanding. To expand our insight into the pathologic processes of the eye, we employ an increasing array of imaging instruments. Wide-field imaging helped in our understanding of the elemental changes throughout the fundus in myopia, and augmented b
