Images in clinical medicine. Acute optic-nerve infarction in carotid dissection

N Engl J Med. 2010 Aug 19;363(8):765. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm0909070.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aortic Dissection / complications*
  • Aortic Dissection / diagnostic imaging
  • Carotid Artery Diseases / complications*
  • Carotid Artery Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Carotid Artery, Internal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cerebral Arterial Diseases / etiology
  • Cerebral Arterial Diseases / pathology*
  • Craniocerebral Trauma / complications
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Infarction / etiology
  • Infarction / pathology*
  • Male
  • Optic Nerve / blood supply*
  • Radiography