Nika Bagheri - The Wills Eye Manual

TEXT EDITORS

Nika Bagheri | Brynn N. Wajda

MULTIMEDIA EDITORS

Charles M. Calvo | Alia K. Durrani

FOUNDING EDITORS

Mark A. Friedberg | Christopher J. Rapuano

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Seventh edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bagheri, Nika, editor. | Wills Eye Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Title: The Wills eye manual : office and emergency room diagnosis and treatment of eye disease / text editors: Nika Bagheri, Brynn N. Wajda ; multimedia editors: Charles M. Calvo, Alia K. Durrani ; founding editors: Mark A. Friedberg, Christopher J. Rapuano.

Other titles: Eye manual

Description: Seventh edition. | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2017] | Includes index. | Preceded by The Wills eye manual / editors, Adam T. Gerstenblith, Michael P. Rabinowitz ; associate editors, Behin I. Barahimi, Christopher M. Fecarotta ; founding editors, Mark A. Friedberg, Christopher J. Rapuano. 6th ed. 2012.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048902 | ISBN 9781496318831

Subjects: | MESH: Eye Diseasesdiagnosis | Eye Diseasestherapy | Emergency Treatmentmethods | Emergencies | Outlines

Classification: LCC RE48.9 | NLM WW 18.2 | DDC 617.7dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048902

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