Prominent amongst last year's diverse papers on the retina were a study of the clinical manifestations of dominant cerebellar ataxia with pigmentary macular dystrophy, a review of the pathogenesis of carcinoma associated retinopathy, the Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial, and a review of congenital optic disc anomalies. Ocular complications of several neurosurgical procedures were also reported during this period.