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Color Atlas of the Eye in Systemic Disease

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an excellent book combining the color atlas with a quick reference in tabular format that's including the most of the major and commom systemic diseases as well as others less common with ocular manifistations.... I recommend this book with the other excellent book ( systemic diseases of the eye ) by Jack Kanski

There are only a few books published with the specific focus on systemic disease. This is an excellent atlas to complement the kanski book. The book is very comprehensive in terms of its scope. The text is very good with descriptions, in an outline format, of both primary ocular and systemic findings. The book does not highlight which are the key findings or most important features, however. The other problem is that the book does not use commonly used disease names like "gyrate atrophy" instead of hyperornithemia.

The pictures in general are very good, with several pictures per disease. However, in some cases, those pictures are just some histological photo and in other cases, they included diseases with no photos (guess they couldnt find one, but it is an "ATLAS").

Overall, I think this is an excellent supplementary reference book with many rarer and interesting diseases included. For those interested in systemic diseases as it relates to ophthalmology, I recommend this book, the kanski book, and another book called diseases of the eye and skin.