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Posterior ciliary-artery occlusion after subcutaneous silicone-oil injection
H Shin1, B N Lemke, T S Stevens
1Department of Ophthalmology, Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea.
Annals of Ophthalmology
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
Visual loss occurred after subcutaneous silicone-oil injection for cosmetic purposes. To our knowledge, this is the first instance of amaurosis caused by a subcutaneous foreign-material injection that spared the central retinal artery and affected portions of the posterior ciliary-artery distribution, including a probable cilioretinal artery. The visual-field defects produced allow a rare opportunity to view the distribution of the human posterior ciliary-artery circulation by means of this in vivo pathologic embolic process. The facial arterial anatomy pertinent to ocular embolism is also discussed.