Visual Fields via the Visual Pathway PDF

Preface

Visual Fields via the Visual Pathway, Second Edition presents the varying visual field deficits occurring with lesions of the visual pathway. This second edition expands the content to consider further types of perimetry and update existing perimetry information. The Octopus 900 perimetry, introduced since the first edition, features alongside Goldmann and Humphrey perimeters. Further additions to clinical case scenarios are included, maintaining a key illustrative feature of the original edition. The main content is, as per the original edition, structured such that the visual pathway is traced anatomically from front to back and each section of the visual pathway has its own dedicated chapter.

The chapters are clearly structured and comprise an outline of anatomy, pathology and signs and symptoms, plus visual field defects specifically associated with that part of the visual pathway. Each chapter is supplemented by numerous illustrations of visual field results, neuroimaging scans and/or line drawings: colour plates of associated fundus images are also provided.

In addition chapters are provided on the basic theory of visual field assessment, methodology, aids to differential diagnosis, artefacts of visual field results and a glossary of terms used in visual field assessment. References and further reading lists are provided for each chapter containing key articles and up-to-date literature.

This textbook has been written to provide a guide for the multidisciplinary eye care team, including ophthalmologists, orthoptists, optometrists, ophthalmic technicians and ophthalmic nurse practitioners, as well as the wider multidisciplinary medical team, including neurologists, neurosurgeons and endocrinologists. Its clinical content for both text and illustrations is particularly relevant for the practitioner