[A giant arterial aneurysm with an inferior paramacular location--a clinical case]

The authors report the case of a 72-year-old patient with a sudden loss of the visual acuity of her unifunctional right eye. The ophthalmoscopy and the angiofluorography of the right eye showed a vascular tumour that is situated paramacular inferior, a long temporal arterial branch. Clinical and biochemical investigations permitted the diagnostic of arterial aneurysm developed on systemic hypertension and vascular fragility of the patient. It is very possible that an occlusive or a spastic downstream component to be at the origin of the aneurysm.