Blindness in adults is frequently caused by acquired optic neuropathies, which can have vascular, inflammatory, toxic, nutritional, compressive, infiltrative or traumatic etiologies. Diagnosis of these neuropathies depends on accurate and precise examination of optic nerve head morphology. O' Neill et al. describe the morphological features of the optic nerve head in the various acquired optic neuropathies and explore the roles of new imaging modalities in the assessment of these disease entities.
- Evelyn C. O'Neill
- Helen V. Danesh-Meyer
- Jonathan G. Crowston
