Stereoscopic Atlas of Macular Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment (2 Volume Set)

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Summary: A superb book
Review: Gass book's is a superb book,for students, fellows,and practitioners,This book has the most important of Macular and
retina diseases.

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Summary: Absolutely the BEST
Review: Gass provides the "gold standard" for textbooks regarding macular maladies. I have read many other texts purporting to review macular disease but none do so to the extent Gass does. Each sentence is jam-packed with information and the references are extensive and complete. The text is a must for any serious student of macular disease. One drawbrack is the black & white photos but I recognize the prohibitive costs of printing the text with color prints. I recall reading the beginning part of the chapter on choroidal neovascularization as a resident and marveling at how Gass explained the pathophysiology with simple yet telling diagrams. This book rates a solid 6 stars (on the five star scale!).

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Summary: This book is cool, but there is better
Review: This book is incredibly cool. It has 15 ViewMaster reels with it that give you an up-close look at some things that can go wrong with your eyes. In fact the problem with this book it that it is too close -- and all the VM photos look more or less the same.

However, Volume II -- "Orbit, lacrimal apparatus, eyelids, and conjunctiva" by David D. Donaldson is much better. Stomach-churning pictures of the grossest eye problems you've ever seen -- all in glorious ViewMaster 3-D.

Both of these books are must-haves, but after Donaldson's masterpiece, Gass' is a little bit of a let-down.