[Disturbances of the retinal vessels as a result of Purtscher's retinopathy (author's transl)].

A 31-year-old patient was buried at canal-building. He sustained Purtscher's retinopathy on his left eye. A fluorescein-angiography displayed six years after the trauma a large neovascular frond and intraretinal neovascular network. These findings demonstrate the severe lesions of the retinal microcirculation caused by the trauma.