Vitreo-retinal surgery

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The hardcover monograph entitled “Vitreo-retinal Surgery”, edited by Bernd Kirchhof (Cologne) and David Wong (Liverpool), appeared as the 9th volume in the series ‘Essentials in ophthalmology’. The reader might expect from the title a textbook with comprehensive instructions for surgical procedures for vitreo-retinal diseases. However, in the preface the authors point out that their aim is “to update our knowledge on the large body of experimental research performed to date on the most urgent problems of vitreoretinal diseases”. Yet vitreo-retinal surgeons will find numerous implications of clinical relevance deducted from the outcome of actual basic research. Nevertheless, a title like “Modern Trends in Vitreo-retinal Surgery” would perhaps have been more appropriate. …