Jonathan D. Trobe: Neuro-Ophthalmology (Rapid Diagnosis in Ophthalmology Series)

Excerpt

This paperback publication comprises 13 chapters and a total of 264 pages, including the index. The table of contents is easy to follow, as is the index, although a list of references is absent. Chapters are grouped under thirteen major hyper-sections, starting with transient visual loss, congenital optic nerve disorders, and finishing with pupil disorders and eyelid disorders. Each of these thirteen sections begins with a brief list of contents, with the section and topic helpfully marked in the margin of each page so that they can be found easily by holding the book horizontally and thumbing through the pages. Each section gives a brief summary of most frequent or important diseases, with facing pages devoted to one topic, with succinct but useful information on the left page and a related picture or illustration on the right page. The left page information and right page illustration format entices the reader to keep the book open, although reading would have been facilitated by a spiral binding which would have permitted the book to remain open. Such a binding would have overcome a handicap common to many narrow-paged pocket books. …