Abstract
Using the biomicroscope to examine the living eye is a routine ophthalmic procedure. The slit lamp enables the practitioner to inspect individual optical sections in the eye in quick sequence, to get a general impression from them and to make a diagnosis. Yet the slit lamp’s full potential in biomicroscopy can only be truly exploited once its various means of illumination are well understood. They enable the practitioner to highlight pathologic changes in individual tissues via the precise application of its illumination “repertoire.”
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Gellrich, MM. (2014). Biomicroscopy. In: The Slit Lamp. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39793-6_2
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