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Practical Handbook of Fluorescein Angiography
First Edition: 2014
9789350909911
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5Preface
I (Bruno Lumbroso) have been teaching for years logical methods of retinal imaging analysis and interpretation. I published my first Handbook of Fluorescein Angiography Interpretation a few years after the fluorescein angiography clinical use became widespread. After it, I published analytical manuals on indocyanine green angiography and, lately, OCT (cross section and “en face” OCT).
In these interpretation handbooks, I systematically follow a rational method to interpret medical ophthalmological imaging. Accurate analysis must come before synthesis deduction and diagnosis. Diagnoses must be the product of logical processes. The inability to formulate an exact diagnosis could be due to the insufficient logical exploitation of one's knowledge.
Even now, with the extensive use of OCT, Fluorescein Angiography remains absolutely necessary in clinical ophthalmology to detect and highlight retinal alterations in morphology and structure.
Widely illustrated with Fluorescein Angiography figures but also, when necessary with ICG, Autofluorescence, sagittal and frontal OCT images, this concise handbook intends to show how to read and interpret Fluorescein Angiography imaging, documenting and diagnosing the most common retinal pathologies. Several tables not only offer guidance through everyday disorders but also in the difficult study of the rarest and most difficult diagnoses. This manual illustrates a logical and simple analysis and interpretation method of Fluorescein Angiography imaging, clearly stating the steps required to reach a diagnosis.
I am happy today to propose this new Practical Handbook of Fluorescein Angiography, not only to young doctors and residents but also to ophthalmologists more expert with retinal diseases.
I (Bruno Lumbroso) would like to thank Dr Marco Rispoli for his many years of invaluable collaboration, unerring imaging and image selection, and help with the chapters of this volume.
Bruno Lumbroso
Marco Rispoli