Vascularisation Des Voies Optiques

Microcirculation of the Anterior Part of the Optic Nerve

“…6). Other authors [4,18,[22][23][24] made the same observation and it may be concluded that in this region the central retinal artery plays no important role in the nutrition of the optic nerve.…”

“…The most important works during re cent years have been those of François and Neetens [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], François and Fryczkowski [12], Hayreh and Dass [13], Singh and Dass [14,15], , and Frycz kowski [19][20][21], Nevertheless, there still re mains a question which has not yet received a definite answer, namely, is there a central artery, or at least an axial vascular system, in the optic nerve, as supposed by François and Neetens, or is there none, as supposed by Hayreh? It was to answer that question that we undertook the present investigation.…”