The Essentials: Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology

Author: Neil R. Miller
Published: October 1998
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 0683306820
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 820

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This is a distillation of the comprehensive five volume, 6000 page, Miller's Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 5th edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). It is logically organized into five sections: the afferent visual system, the pupil, the efferent system, the eyelid, and non-organic disorders. The editors aim to condense the material found primarily in the first volume of the fifth edition to ""just the essentials"" of neuro-ophthalmic disease. This book is targeted to a wider audience than the larger comprehensive textbook. It will appeal to general practitioners in medicine, neurology, and ophthalmology who desire a handy reference of common neuro-ophthalmic diseases. Although the text is an abridged version of the comprehensive textbook, it is still sufficiently detailed to stand alone. Much of what is eliminated in the condensation is detailed referencing. There are no references at the end of chapters; the reader is instead referred to the appropriate volumes and pages of the original textbook. The section on the afferent visual system provides a discussion of conditions from the anterior to posterior visual pathway in logical succession. The section on the efferent system has a well-presented chapter on nystagmus. Throughout the textbook, commonly used terminology and/or cardinal clinical features are appropriately written in bold print. A possible shortcoming is that there is no glossary, which would he useful in such a clinical handbook. However, the comprehensive index mitigates the lack of a glossary. This book is recommended for practitioners and residents in ophthalmology and neurology. Although it does not replace the comprehensivefive-volume version from which it is based, it is an acceptable compromise to accommodate smaller office libraries and resident budgets.

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Sect. I The Afferent Visual System
1 Approach to the Patient: Examination of the Visual Sensory System 3
2 Anatomy and Physiology of the Retina and Optic Nerve: Distinguishing Retinal from Optic Nerve Disease 59
3 Anomalies of the Optic Disc 100
4 Topical Diagnosis of Acquired Optic Nerve Disorders 134
5 Papilledema 166
6 Optic Neuritis 196
7 Ischemic Optic Neuropathies 221
8 Compressive and Infiltrative Optic Neuropathies 247
9 Traumatic Optic Neuropathies 278
10 Toxic and Deficiency Optic Neuropathies 290
11 Hereditary Optic Neuropathies 303
12 Topical Diagnosis of Chiasmal and Retrochiasmal Lesions 323
13 Central Disorders of Visual Function 369
Sect. II Pupil
14 Examination of the Pupils, Accommodation, and Lacrimation 411
15 Disorders of Pupillary Function, Accommodation, and Lacrimation 432
Sect. III Efferent System
16 Examination of Ocular Motility and Alignment 489
17 Nuclear and Infranuclear Ocular Motility Disorders 509
18 Supranuclear and Internuclear Ocular Motor Disorders 562
19 Nystagmus and Related Ocular Motility Disorders 614
20 Myopathies Affecting the Extraocular Muscles 647
21 Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission 689
Sect. IV Eyelid
22 Abnormal Eyelid Position and Movement 721
Sect. V Nonorganic Disease
23 Neuro-Ophthalmologic Manifestations of Nonorganic Disease 769
Index 791

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