Includes References and Index

Ophthalmic tumors are rare and diverse so that their diagnosis can be quite
complex. Treatment usually requires special expertise and equipment and, in
many instances, is controversial. The field is advancing rapidly, because of
accelerating progress in tumor biology, pharmacology, and instrumentation.
Increasingly, the care for patients with an ocular or adnexal tumor is provided
by a multidisciplinary team, consisting of ocular oncologists, general oncologists, radiotherapists, pathologists, psychologists, and other specialists.
For all these reasons, we felt that there was a need for the new edition of
the textbook providing a balanced view of current clinical practice. Although
each section of Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology now represents a stand-alone
volume, each chapter has a similar layout with boxes that highlight the key
features, tables that provide comparison, and flow diagrams that outline therapeutic approaches.
The enormous task of editing a multiauthor, multivolume textbook could
not have been possible without the support and guidance by the staff at
Springer: Caitlin Prim, Melanie Zerah, ArulRonika Pathinathan, and Karthik
Rajasekar. Michael D. Sova kept the pressure on to meet the production
deadlines.
It is our sincere hope that our efforts will meet the high expectation of the
readers.