Main description:

This book is a practical, symptom-based, 'how-to' guide to neuro-ophthalmology and acquired strabismus for all trainee and practising ophthalmologists and optometrists. 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.

A practical and accessible handbook for the ophthalmologist or optometrist without a specialist interest in neuro-ophthalmology and acquired strabismus.
The text simplifies a subject which is often a cause of litigation against practising ophthalmologists and exam failure for trainees and residents.
The book aids diagnosis in a field in which mistakes may lead to medico-legal problems, e.g. brain tumours presenting with blurred or double vision.
The book leads the reader from the symptom, through a series of simple but safe flowcharts and check-lists, to the diagnosis or the tests which need to be ordered.
The first chapter presents 20 'golden rules' to keep you and your patients out of trouble.

A revised text with some new illustrations brings this highly-praised book up to date.
New online videos demonstrate abnormal eye movements, eyelid problems and pupil abnormalities.

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.