Vitrectomy: A Pars Plana Approach

This book begins with a chapter on basic techniques but it also includes less accepted procedures such as the transfer of full-thickness composite eyelid grafts from one eyelid to another. It continues with a series of short chapters describing a wide range of different surgical procedures which the authors use in the orbital region. These are extremely well and copiously illus- trated with excellent diagrams as well as clinical photographs. The book is commendably brief and only the salient features of the different techniques are described. It is orientated towards presenting the authors' tech- niques to the practising ophthalmic surgeon and not to reviewing established procedures. The clinical indica- tions for any particular procedure are not discussed in any detail relative to the available altematives, and therefore this is not a good book for the embryo ophthalmologist who wants to see the whole subject in perspec- tive. There must, however, be limitations with any book of this size and what Mr English and Mr Keats do achieve is a dynamic presentation of ideas which should provide the practising ophthalmologist with some useful additional techniques w-hen operating in the eyelid region.