Common optic nerve disorders [abstract]

ABSTRACT

A clinically oriented overview of common optic nerve disease the differential diagnosis, clinical findings, diagnostic work-up, and rational for therapy. Included will be congenital anomalies mistaken for acquired neurologic disease; differential diagnosis of the "swollen disk"; ischaemic optic neuropathies, common and uncommon; optic neuritis with and without multiple sclerosis; heredofamilial optic atrophies. This summary is designed to provide an up-to-date review for the general practitioner in opthalmology, neurology or internal medicine. Necessary and unnecessary diagnostic procedures will be stressed. (AU)