Main description:

Diagnosing a patient with unexplained ocular pain can be time-consuming and difficult, but taking an anatomic approach and excluding causes along the way can aid in the diagnosis. This book provides the reader with a systematic evaluation plan for these cases, written and edited by leaders in the field. A Case-Based Guide to Eye Pain is written for both ophthalmologists and neuro-ophthalmologists since there are not enough neuro-ophthalmologists to treat the number of patients with unexplained ocular pain and general ophthalmologists are having to take on the diagnosis and treatment of these patients.

Organized in an easy-to-use manner, each case covers the following key elements: the chief complaint, history of the present illness, the examination, assessment and plan, follow-up, alternate perspective, summary points, and key references. Tables are also available to help the reader rapidly sort through cases that may apply to a sign, symptom, historical feature, diagnostic test or treatment option. This allows the practitioner who has a patient with a particular concern to use the tables to identify a case discussion. Additionally, A Case-based Guide to Eye Pain includes an appendices with the general approach to eye pain and anatomy of the trigeminal pathway and its relation to eye pain.

Contents:

Table of Contents

I. Ophthalmic disorders

A. Grossly normal eye exam

1. Dry eye syndrome

2. Corneal erosions

3. Post LASIK pain

4. "Eye strain"

5. Intermittent pressure elevation

6. Blepharospasm

7. Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis

8. Trochleitis

9. Lacrimal gland disorders

10. Poster

ior scleritis

B. Grossly abnormal eye exam

1. Idiopathic orbital inflammatory syndrome

2. Uveitis

3. Conjunctivitis

4. Thyroid eye disease

5. Orbital mass

6. Ocular ischemic syndrome

7. Horner syndrome

8. Microvascular cranial nerve palsy

II. Neurologic disorders

A. Relatively normal exam

1. Migraine

2. Photophobia

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nbsp; 3. Trigeminal neuralgia

4. Cervicogenic headache

5. Ice pick headache

6. Sinus disease

7. Chronic daily headache

8. Supraorbital neuralgia

9. Trigeminal autonomic disorders: Cluster headache

10. The trigeminal autonomic disorders: SUNCT syndrome

10. Trigeminal autonomic disorders: Hemicranias

11. Valsalva headache

^; 12. Pituitary tumors

< 13. Aneurysm

14. Meningitis

15. Intracranial hypotension

16. Cluster headache

17. Giant cell arteritis

18. Thunderclap headache

19. Post-traumatic headache

B. Abnormal neurological exam

1. Optic neuritis

2. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

3. Carotid cavernous fistula

4. Herpes zoster ophthalmicus

5. Periocular skin cancer