Advanced slit lamp techniques with an understanding of pathology

1. Knowledge of slit lamp illumination techniques along with solid concepts of the disease processes can allow an understanding of the visible morphologic structures seen in the disease process during examination with the biomicroscope. 2. Inflammation can be defined as the interaction between a stimulus and a host, frequently resulting in some degree of structural change within the host. 3. The cellular responses include a predictably sequential order of events. The four cardinal signs of inflammation are redness, swelling, heat, and pain, phenomena explained at the cellular level.