The Neuro-Ophthalmology Survival Guide

Description

This book is a practical, symptom-based, ‘how-to’ guide to neuro-ophthalmology and acquired strabismus for all trainee and practising ophthalmologists. Each chapter focusses on a specific clinical symptom and includes an introduction to the clinical assessment of a symptom; an examination checklist; a management flowchart to be followed; clinical diagnostic criteria checklists; and further information on the diseases that can cause the symptom with a brief discussion of appropriate management.

Table of Contents

• Staying out of trouble
• Blurred vision or field loss
• Swollen disc(s), normal vision
• Transient visual loss
• Double vision
• ‘Seeing things’
• Abnormal movement or orientation of the visual world
• Abnormal eye movements without visual symptoms
• Unequal pupils
• Ptosis
• Facial weakness or spasm
• Unexplained eye pain, orbital pain or headache
• Neuro-ophthalmic history and examination