Key Features
•Uses targeted text, bulleted lists, tables, and visual aids to highlight salient points across all ophthalmology subspecialties.
•Includes 2,600 illustrations, including more than 1,000 new images of common and rare conditions and arrows to show the exact pathology.
•Features detailed updates on new therapeutic interventions for neurological disease and ocular tumours; new imaging techniques such as OCT, OCT angiography, and MRI; and new topics such as circadian rhythms, graft vs host disease and the effects of Ebola virus infection on the eye.
•Presents examination techniques in a new, separate chapter and contains new "tips" on key issues in every chapter.
•Provides up-to-date information on hot topics such as intravitreal treatment with anti-VEGF agents for macular disease, genetic advances in hereditary retinal dystrophies, the use of biological agents in the treatment of uveitis and scleritis and new surgical advances such as MIGS for glaucoma and limbal stem cell grafting.
•Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
1 Examination Techniques
Introduction
Psychophysical tests
Perimetry
Slit lamp biomicroscopy of the anterior segment
Fundus examination
Tonometry
Gonioscopy
Central corneal thickness
2 Eyelids
Introduction
Non-neoplastic lesions
Benign epidermal tumours
Benign pigmented lesions
Benign adnexal tumours
Miscellaneous benign tumours
Malignant tumours
Disorders of the eyelashes
Allergic disorders
Immune-related inflammation
Bacterial infections
Viral infections
Blepharitis
Ptosis
Ectropion
Entropion
Miscellaneous acquired disorders
Cosmetic eyelid and periocular surgery
Congenital malformations
3 Lacrimal Drainage System
Introduction
Acquired obstruction
Congenital obstruction
Chronic canaliculitis
Dacryocystitis
4 Orbit
Introduction
Thyroid eye disease
Infections
Non-infective inflammatory disease
Non-neoplastic vascular abnormalities
Cystic lesions
Vascular tumours
Lacrimal gland tumours
Neural tumours
Lymphoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Metastatic tumours
The anophthalmic socket
Craniosynostoses
5 Dry Eye
Introduction
Sjögren syndrome
Clinical features
Investigation
Treatment
6 Conjunctiva
Introduction
Bacterial conjunctivitis
Viral conjunctivitis
Allergic conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis in blistering mucocutaneous disease