Basic Texts

External Disease and Cornea

Albert DM, Miller JW, Azar DT, Blodi BA, eds. Albert & Jakobiec’s Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. 4 vols. Philadelphia: Elsevier/Saunders; 2008.

Arffa RC, Grayson M, eds. Grayson’s Diseases of the Cornea. 4th ed. St Louis: Mosby; 1997. Brightbill FS, McDonnell PJ, McGhee CN, Farjo AA, Serdarevic O. Corneal Surgery: Theory,

Technique and Tissue. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier/Mosby; 2009.

Catania LJ. Primary Care of the Anterior Segment. 2nd ed. Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange; 1996. Copeland RA Jr, Afshari NA, eds. Copeland and Afshari’s Principles and Practices of Cornea. New

Delhi, India: Jaypee Brothers; 2012.

Corbett M, Rosen ES, O’Brart DP, Stevenson R. Corneal Topography: Principles and Applications.

London: BMJ Books; 1999.

Coster DJ. Cornea. London: BMJ Books; 2002. Lightman S, ed. Fundamentals of Clinical Ophthalmology.

Feder RS, Rapuano CJ. The LASIK Handbook: A Case-based Approach. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007.

Foster CS, Azar DT, Dohlman CH, eds. Smolin and Thoft’s The Cornea: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Practice. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2004.

Kaufman HE, Barron BA, McDonald MB, eds. The Cornea. 2nd ed. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1999.

Kaufman PL, Alm A, Levin LA, Nilsson SFE, Ver Hoeve J, Wu SM, eds. Adler’s Physiology of the Eye. 11th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier; 2011.

Krachmer JH, Mannis MJ, Holland EJ, eds. Cornea. 3rd ed. St Louis: Elsevier/Mosby; 2011. Krachmer JH, Palay DA. Cornea Atlas. 2nd ed. St Louis: Mosby; 2006.

Leibowitz HM, Waring GO III, eds. Corneal Disorders: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders; 1998.

Murray PR, Baron EJ, Jorgensen JH, Landry ML, Pfaller MA, eds. Manual of Clinical Microbiology. 9th ed. 2 vols. Washington, DC: ASM Press; 2007.

Ostler HB, Ostler MW. Diseases of the External Eye and Adnexa: A Text and Atlas. Baltimore: Urban and Schwarzenberg; 1993.

Pepose JS, Holland GN, Wilhelmus KR, eds. Ocular Infection and Immunity. St Louis: Mosby; 1996. Rapuano CJ, Luchs JI, Kim T. Anterior Segment: The Requisites. St Louis: Mosby; 2000. Krachmer

JH, ed. The Requisites in Ophthalmology.

Seal DV, Pleyer U. Ocular Infection. 2nd ed. New York: Informa Healthcare; 2007.

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