Main description:

Pediatric Neuroophthalmology details the diagnostic criteria, current concepts of pathogenesis, neuroradiological correlates, and clinical management of a large group of neuroophthalmic disorders that present in childhood. Surprisingly distinct from neuroophthalmic disorders afflicting adults, this set of diseases falls between the cracks of most ophthalmology training, and thus, warrants a practical, clinical guide for the practitioner in ophthalmology - the neuroophthalmologist, pediatric ophthalmologist, general ophthalmologist - as well as neurologists and for residents. The authors, leading pediatric ophthalmologists, have taken this difficult subject matter and developed an accessible, user-friendly manual with a detailed approach to the recognition, differential diagnosis, and management of pediatric neuroophthalmologic disorders.

Contents:

1 The Apparently Blind Infant.- 2 Congenital Optic Disc Anomalies.- 3 The Swollen Optic Disc in Childhood.- 4 Optic Atrophy in Children.- 5 Transient, Unexplained, and Psychogenic Visual Loss in Children.- 6 Ocular Motor Nerve Palsies in Children.- 7 Complex Ocular Motor Disorders in Children.- 8 Nystagmus in Infancy and Childhood.- 9 Torticollis and Head Nodding.- 10 Neuro-Ophthalmologic Manifestations of Neurodegenerative Disease in Childhood.- 11 Neuro-Ophthalmologic Manifestations of Systemic and Intracranial Disease.