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Edited by David BenEzra. 523 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 1999. $199.95. ISBN 1-85317-507-2.

Since the eye is only 24 mm in diameter, a 500-page book devoted to basic and clinical concepts of ocular inflammation will seem a bit excessive to many clinicians and scientists. Yet the editor of this book, David BenEzra, laments in his introduction that "all the pertinent knowledge" could not be incorporated into a single volume. Indeed, the eye deserves special consideration as a target of the immune response. By virtue of the success of corneal allografts, eye tissue is the type of tissue most frequently transplanted. The eye can be the target of infections, cancers, and systemic or localized . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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