A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:
- General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; furthermore:
- Inspection (viewing).
- Skin and mucous membranes
- Eyes
- Ophthalmic examination – including ophthalmoscopy / ophthalmoscopy [due topossible sequelae: Amaurosis (blindness; blindness), proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR; progressive vitreous disease, for example, due to excessive cell proliferation after retinal detachment or severe eye injury)]
It must always be examined also the partner eye.
In square brackets [ ] is referred to possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.