Abstract
The pioneer worker in the study of the ophthalmic artery, particularly its branches and their variations, was Meyer [1] (in 1887); his observations on 20 cases were accepted more or less as classical, and most accounts of the ophthalmic artery in the textbooks have been essentially based on his study of those 20 specimens, ever since. Apart from occasional reports of various abnormalities, there was no systematic study of the ophthalmic artery until my systematic anatomical studies in human beings [2–4]. I investigated its origin (in 170 specimens [2]), intracranial and intracanalicular course (in 106 specimens [2]), intraorbital course (in 61 specimens [3]), and its branches (in 59 specimens with satisfactory filling of all branches [4]). My studies revealed several discrepancies in Meyer’s [1] description, particularly about the branches, presumably because of his small number of specimens. A Medline search reveals that no further detailed, systematic anatomical study on a large number of specimens has followed mine, so that the following description is essentially based on my findings, with the addition of some later information.
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Hayreh, S.S. (2015). The Ophthalmic Artery. In: Ocular Vascular Occlusive Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12781-1_1
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