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Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

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A 73-year-old retired man presented with blockage of his right eye for 5 days. He noticed a black shadow in the nasal inferior visual in the right eye in the morning when he woke up without eye pain.

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Tian, G., Sun, X. (2022). Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. In: Tian, G., Sun, X. (eds) Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4668-4_6

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