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Book Review
Walsh and Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology.
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Walsh and Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology. 5th ed. Vols 1 and 2. By Neil R Miller, Nancy J Newman. Pp 1116 each. £130 each. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1998. ISBN 0-683-302302 (Vol 1); 0-683-302310 (Vol 2).
The fifth edition of Walsh and Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology is a very extensive piece of work that consists of five volumes and involves over 70 authors. It is the largest textbook in neuro-ophthalmology and is considered to be the reference standard in this area with appeal not only to ophthalmologists but also to neurologists and neurosurgeons. The fourth edition took two authors 14 years to complete and suffered as a result by quickly becoming out of date. To avoid this, the present edition has multiple authors and was completed in the remarkably short time of two …