PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - L Frisén AU - L Holmegaard AU - M Rosencrantz TI - Sectorial optic atrophy and homonymous, horizontal sectoranopia: a lateral choroidal artery syndrome? AID - 10.1136/jnnp.41.4.374 DP - 1978 Apr 01 TA - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry PG - 374--380 VI - 41 IP - 4 4099 - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/41/4/374.short 4100 - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/41/4/374.full SO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry1978 Apr 01; 41 AB - Two patients with sectorial optic atrophy and homonymous, horizontal sectoranopia are described. Neuroradiological investigations localised the visual pathway lesion to the lateral geniculate body. The peculiar nature of the field defect and the optic atrophy appeared explicable in terms of ischaemia in the territory of the lateral choroidal artery.