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A Symptom-Based Approach
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Third Edition
By
Hector Chawla, MBChB(StAnd), DO(Lond), DRCOG(Lond), FRCS(Edin), FRCOphth, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh; Examiner, Royal
College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London, UK
Description
New for the third edition:
Text is updated and revised
A new design and layout
Replacement and new improved illustrations
More
information on how to pass exams
The text has been re-ordered to provide a problem-solving approach
Contents
Acknolwedgements; Preface; The normal eye; A common process at work in a special organ; What patients complain about - the five symptoms;
The ophthalmic ritual; Change of appearance; Pain; Watering (and discharge); Disturbance of vision; Loss of vision; The three serious
causes of a red eye; Common disorders of the outer eye; Glaucoma; The cranial nerves; Nystagmus; The pupil reflexes - normal and abnormal;
Double vision; The normal disc and some disc anomalies; Squint in childhood; Trauma; The vascular retinopathies; Hypertension; Diabetic
retinopathy; Other vascular anomalies; Retinoblastoma; The management of refractive errors; Miscellany of words, drugs and rarities;
Visual standards; Epilogue
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Paperback, 224 pages, publication date: SEP-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-3979-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-3979-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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