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Gonioscopy

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Gonioscopy is an essential technique for the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. It is important for viewing the anterior chamber angle. Other techniques such as slit-lamp biomicroscopy or imaging techniques such as anterior segment optical coherence tomography or ultrasound biomicroscopy, may allow collection of the same information we can obtain by gonioscopy. So in eyes with angle-closure glaucoma it is possible to recognize if an angle is occludable or if there is an appositional or synechial closure. But in open angle glaucoma also it is possible to observe the landmarks, the iris insertion and the pigmentation of the angle. Gonioscopic examination is an invaluable tool in glaucoma and would have been incorporated into the routine examination as a standard protocol. In this chapter there are figures to show the anatomy of a normal angle, the landmarks, and the grading systems, and there are different images of angle-closure and open angle glaucomas.

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  1. Department of Surgical, Medical and Molecular Pathology and Critical Care Medicine, U.O.Oculistica Universitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Michele Figus MD, PhD & Chiara Posarelli MD

  2. Department of Neurosciences, U.O.Oculistica, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Taloni MD

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Figus, M., Taloni, M., Posarelli, C. (2016). Gonioscopy. In: Ferreras, A. (eds) Glaucoma Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18959-8_2

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