title: [Vision disorders in insufficiency and occlusion of the basilar artery].
abstract: The severe course of disease in a patient with stenosis of the basilar artery, who was initially an in-patient at the author's clinic, is described and compared with the courses in 15 patients with angiographically proven stenosis or insufficiency of the basilar artery. The difficulties of diagnosis and in particular of differentiating the condition from hysteria are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009759:Nystagmus, Pathologic / Q000209:etiology; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000209:etiology; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000150:complications*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields
vernacular_title: Sehstörungen bei Insuffizienz und Verschluss der Arteria basilaris.