THE RETINA

Prominent amongst last year's diverse papers on the retina were a stud y of the clinical manifestations of dominant cerebellar ataxia with pi gmentary macular dystrophy, a review of the pathogenesis of carcinoma associated retinopathy, the Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression T rial, and a review of congenital optic disc anomalies. Ocular complica tions of several neurosurgical procedures were also reported during th is period.