This handbook offers a systematic summary of ophthalmic disease directed towards diagnosis, interim assessment and ongoing management. Now including an extensive online image bank the fourth edition provides rapid access to the information when it is needed, whether in the clinic, theatre or on the ward.

• 1: Clinical Skills


• 2: Investigations and their interpretation


• 3: Ocular trauma


• 4: Lids


• 5: Lacrimal


• 6: Conjunctiva


• 7: Cornea


• 8: Sclera


• 9: Lens


• 10: Glaucoma


• 11: Uveitis


• 12: Vitreoretinal


• 13: Medical retina


• 14: Orbit


• 15: Intraocular tumours


• 16: Neuro-ophthalmology


• 17: Strabismus


• 18: Paediatric ophthalmology


• 19: Refractive ophthalmology


• 20: Aids to diagnosis


• 21: Vision in context


• 22: Surgery: anaesthetics and perioperative care


• 23: Surgery: theatre notes


• 24: Lasers


• 25: Therapeutics


• 26: Evidence-based ophthalmology


• 27: Resources

Alastair Denniston is Consultant Ophthalmologist/Honorary Professor specialising in Uveitis and Medical Retina based at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University of Birmingham and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham where he leads a programme of research focussed on improving the way we detect and measure inflammatory eye disease with a view to earlier treatment and prevention of sight-loss.