It keeps getting better and better. Together with nine contributors, Drs. Foroozan and Vaphiades have updated Lanning Kline’s classic and indispensable manual to create this eighth edition. This succinct and straightforward work will be of great value to practising neurologists, ophthalmologists and their residents in training. It provides a quick means of piecing together a differential diagnosis for the patient who presents with neuro-ophthalmological symptoms.
The authors have created a compendious list of possible diagnoses based on the clinical presentation. Each chapter is written in outline form. Take, for instance, Chapter 6 (Six Syndromes VI Nerve). The syndromes are organised by the signs, symptoms and their anatomical correlates. This is then followed by a comprehensive list of the possible diagnoses.
There are twenty chapters covering
Diplopia
Nystagmus
Disorders (“syndromes”) of cranial nerves III, IV, V, VI & VII
The pupil
Optic neuropathies
Myopathies
Disorders of the eyelids
Headache
Carotid artery disease
Nonorganic visual disorders
Disorders of higher visual functions
The phakomatoses
Neuroimaging
It would be ideal for Kline’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Review Manual to be kept in all neurology and ophthalmology clinics where it can be readily accessed by the busy practitioner who needs to formulate a work-up of the patient who presents to their clinic with a neuro-ophthalmological disorder.