1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454620403321

Autore

Purvin Valerie A. <1948->

Titolo

Common neuro-ophthalmic pitfalls : case-based teaching / / Valerie A. Purvin, Aki Kawasaki [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-107-19286-2

0-511-73747-5

1-282-00172-8

9786612001727

0-511-48008-3

0-511-47769-4

0-511-48088-1

0-511-47623-X

0-511-57580-7

0-511-47921-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

617.7/32

Soggetti

Neuroophthalmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

When ocular disease is mistaken for neurologic disease -- When orbital disease is mistaken for neurologic disease -- Mistaking congenital anomalies for acquired disease -- Radiographic errors -- Incidental findings (seeing but not believing) -- Failure of pattern recognition -- Clinical findings that are subtle -- Misinterpretation of visual fields -- Neuro-ophthalmic look-alikes -- Over-reliance on negative test results -- Over-ordering tests -- Management misadventures.

Sommario/riassunto

Using real-life cases describing patients with neuro-ophthalmic disorders, this book is a case-based teaching tool that bridges the gap between textbook information and everyday clinical practice. Each case illustrates a particular area of frequent diagnostic confusion, and highlights the specific clinical features that should point to the correct diagnosis. Focusing on errors in this way serves as motivation to the



clinician to master the material so that 'pitfalls' can be avoided. The level of the case discussions assumes that the reader has some familiarity with basic neuroanatomy, physiology and disease process but each case discussion furnishes a brief review of such information, always with an emphasis on those features that are clinically relevant. The case-histories are succinct and amply illustrated, including motility and fundus photographs, visual fields and radiographic studies. The narrative is moved along with questions to the reader, making it easy to follow the logic of the cases.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810507203321

Titolo

The "Anonymous" sayings of the Desert Fathers : a select edition and complete English translation / / edited and translated by John Wortley [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23305-4

1-107-35700-4

1-107-34363-1

1-107-34738-6

1-107-34113-2

1-107-34861-7

1-107-34488-3

1-139-03177-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 651 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

271.009/015

Soggetti

Desert Fathers

Spiritual life - Christianity

Monastic and religious life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Note on the translation -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Text and translation -- Select bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremitic monasticism, a significant phenomenon within the early history of Christianity. The publication of this book finally ensures the availability of all three major collections which constitute the work, edited and translated into English. Richer in Tales than the 'Alphabetic' collection to which this is an appendix (both to be dated c.AD 500), the 'Anonymous' collection presented in this volume furnishes almost as much material for the study of the late antique world from which the monk sought to escape as it does for the monastic endeavour itself. More material continued to be added well into the seventh century and so the spread and gradual evolution of monasticism are illustrated here over a period of about two and a half centuries.