A Study of the Cilio-Retinal Artery in Korean.

Song, Yong Moon; Choi, Ouk

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1981;22(2):363-366.
Published online February 1, 1981.

A Study of the Cilio-Retinal Artery in Korean.

Yong Moon Song, Ouk Choi

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine Yonsei University, Korea.

한국인의 모양망막동맥에 대한 고찰

최억(Ouk Choi),송용문(Yong Moon Song)

Abstract

The cilio-retinal artery appears ophthalmoscopically at the margin of the optic disc, usually on its temporal side and is concerned with the supply of a localized part of the retina, usually the portion between the disc and the macula. So the cilio-retinal artery preserves a very valuable amount of vision when occlusion of the central artery occurs. The incidence of the presence of the cilio-retinal artery has never been known in Korea while many foreign authors (Randall, Lang and Barrett, Eischnig, Jackson, Adachi, Mann) has reported. The cilio-retinal artery was observed in six hundred and two Korean with normal eyes. The following results were obtained; 1. The incidence of the cilio-retinal artery was 11.05% of 1204 eyes. 2. There was no sexual predominance in the incidence of the cilio-retinalartery. 3. The incidence of the presence of the cilio-retinal artery in right eye was 41.75% and left eye 58.25%. 4. The cilio-retinal artery was found in both eyes in 12.71% of 118 Koreans with cilio-retinal artery.