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 [vascular congestion?, blood in the eyeball?, bluish discoloration of the eye?]
- Inspection (viewing).
- Ophthalmic examination – examination of the eye with a slit lamp, determination of visual acuity and determination of refraction (examination of the refractive properties of the eye); stereoscopic findings of optic disc (area of the retina where the retinal nerve fibers gather and form the optic nerve after leaving the eyeball) and peripapillary nerve fiber layer.
- Cancer prevention
- If necessary, neurological examination [due tosevere headaches].
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.
