ABSTRACT
This color handbook was conceived to fill a need for pediatricians and primary care physicians not completely met by existing encyclopedic treatises on pediatric ophthalmology. Our intent was to write a clinically oriented, cohesive text that reviewed the signs, symptoms, and treatment of common ocular diseases and disorders in infants and children. Ocular disorders are of major significance because they often provide clues to the presence not only of systemic diseases but also of other congenital malformations. The recognition, understanding, early treatment and, ultimately, prevention of ocular diseases in childhood will have lasting and gratifying effects for all physicians who care for affected children.
