RT Book, Section
A1 Riordan-Eva, Paul
A2 Riordan-Eva, Paul
A2 Augsburger, James J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1144466589
T1 Anatomy & Embryology of the Eye
T2 Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, 19e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071843539
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144466589
RD 2024/04/19
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.