Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• TARKKANEN, AHTI
• MERENMIES, LAURI
• MäKINEN, JUDIT

Titel

EMBOLISM OF THE CENTRAL RETINAL ARTERY SECONDARY TO METASTATIC CARCINOMA

Ist Teil von

• Acta ophthalmologica, 1973-01, Vol.51 (1), p.25-33

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1973

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A 54‐year‐old man experienced sudden loss of vision of one eye and was admitted four hours later for treatment of typical occlusion of the central retinal artery. The patient died three weeks later and the autopsy revealed bronchial carcinoma of the epidermoid type with metastasis in most visceral organs. Microscopic examination of the eye disclosed the central retinal artery to be patent but with atheromatous changes at the level of the lamina cribrosa. The retina showed evidence of acute ischaemic infarction of the inner retinal layers. Tumour emboli were observed in the retinal arterioles. Trypsin‐digest preparations were also employed to demonstrate tumour cells in the retinal arterioles.