TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Anatomy & Embryology of the Eye A1 - Riordan-Eva, Paul A2 - Riordan-Eva, Paul A2 - Augsburger, James J. PY - 2017 T2 - Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, 19e AB - A thorough understanding of the anatomy of the eye, orbit, visual pathways, upper cranial nerves, and central pathways for the control of eye movements is a prerequisite for proper interpretation of diseases having ocular manifestations. Furthermore, such anatomic knowledge is essential to the proper planning and safe execution of ocular and orbital surgery. Whereas most knowledge of these matters is based on anatomic dissections, either postmortem or during surgery, noninvasive techniques—particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasonography, and optical coherence tomography (OCT)—are increasingly providing additional information. Investigating the embryology of the eye is more difficult because of the relative scarcity of suitable human material, and thus there is still great reliance on animal studies with the inherent difficulties in inferring parallels in human development. Nevertheless, a great deal is known about the embryology of the human eye, and—together with the recent expansion in molecular genetic—this has led to a much deeper understanding of developmental anomalies of the eye. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144466589 ER -