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06 / Vascular Surgery · clerkship

A curtain over one eye

  1. ED
  2. Investigations
  3. Pre-Op
  4. OR
  5. Ward
  6. Debrief

Four minutes of darkness

Vision returned completely. There were no other neurological symptoms. He is hypertensive, smokes, and takes no antiplatelet agent. A bruit is audible over the right carotid.

Open in 3D: the carotid bifurcation and its branches

What has happened, anatomically?

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