In recent decades, the prognosis of congenital glaucoma has completely changed. Nowadays surgical results are very good and enable children with pediatric glaucoma to integrate entirely into society as adults.

Based on the author's cumulative experience of more than 50 years and 860 patients operated on for congenital glaucoma, this well-structured and lavishly illustrated textbook-atlas covers all aspects of congenital and infantile glaucoma. It enables the reader to learn about the:

Original method for examining newborns under general anaesthesia in the slit-lamp

Signs and symptoms of the disease and the differential diagnosis

Role and importance of the echometry value for early diagnosis

Gonioscopy results and the three types of congenital glaucomas (pure, refractory and late)

Type of surgery to be performed in each case, with the evaluation and case-studies by follow-up long-term results.

Offers comprehensive coverage of pediatric and congenital glaucoma
Provides valuable hints on the type of surgery to be performed in each case as well as evaluation of long-term results
Written by renowned authors of the field and based on decades of the authors' experience
Highly structured and lavishly illustrated with Video-DVD: the first time that such images are published with this extraordinary resolution as they have been taken with the Roussel and Fankhauser lens