[Occlusion of the posterolateral ciliary artery--preceding cerebral stroke]. / Zator tetnicy rzeskowej tylnej bocznej--poprzedzajacy udar mózgu.

A case of acute occlusion of the posterolateral ciliary artery which occurred in a 57 years old man, habitual smoker, with II. obesity is presented. Diagnosis was made during emergency basing on fluorescein angiographic examination. The authors concluded that in each case of vascular accident there is a necessity to explore its cause. In the presented case it had been insufficiency of the internal carotid artery which in a short time, after ocular accident, caused a cerebral stroke.