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Acute monocular blindness is usually caused by vascular disease or trauma. Less common causes include space-occupying lesions, vascular malformations, or inflammatory processes. These can be differentiated mainly by the different time course of the visual loss (Fig. 1).
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Kömpf, D., Hacke, W., Hanley, D.F. (1994). Acute Visual Loss — Monocular Blindness. In: Hacke, W., Hanley, D.F., Einhäupl, K.M., Bleck, T.P., Diringer, M.N., Ropper, A.H. (eds) Neurocritical Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87602-8_33
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