title: [A woman with acute loss of vision and a mass in her neck].
abstract: A 64-year-old woman had acute central vision loss of her left eye. She also had a pulsating mass in the left side of her neck. It appeared the vision loss was caused by a thromboembolism that originated from an aneurysm of the left carotid artery.
authors.affiliation: Reinier de Graaf Ziekenhuis, afd. Neurologie, Delft, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Geut
authors.forename: Daan J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kamphuis
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis