Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis A Comprehensive Guide

A handy manual for cornea specialists, this book provides detailed practical information about a complex, sight-threatening disease that can be challenging to diagnose and manage. This text features chapters dedicated to outlining all facets of diagnosis

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Radhika Tandon Anat Galor Virender Singh Sangwan Manotosh Ray Editors

Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis A Comprehensive Guide

Essentials in Ophthalmology

Series Editor Arun D. Singh, MD

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5332

Radhika Tandon Anat Galor Virender Singh Sangwan Manotosh Ray •

Editors

Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis A Comprehensive Guide

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Editors Radhika Tandon, MD, DNB, FRCSEd, FRCOphth Department of Cornea and Refractive Services, Ophthalmology Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS New Delhi India Anat Galor, MD, MSPH Department of Ophthalmology, Clinical Ophthalmology, Miami VAMC, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute University of Miami Miami, FL USA

Manotosh Ray, MBBS, MD (AIIMS), FRCSEd Department of Ophthalmology National University Hospital Singapore Singapore and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore

Virender Singh Sangwan, MS Clinical Trial Center, L V Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad India

ISSN 1612-3212 Essentials in Ophthalmology ISBN 978-3-319-50402-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50404-9

ISSN 2196-890X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-50404-9

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Preface

This textbook, Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis, came about in 2014, when the topic was covered in the Cornea Subspecialty Day at the AAO meeting in Chicago and we realized that this was a clinical area that required an updated textbook of its own. Though not that common, the disease is of sufficient importance to merit special attention by virtue of it being sight threatening and a complex disorder with an interplay of systemic and local pathologies