Posterior cerebral artery

Posterior cerebral artery (PCA)

Deep or proximal PCA strokes cause ischemia in the thalamus and/or midbrain, as well as in the cortex.
Superficial or distal PCA infarctions involve only cortical structures (4).
On the left a patient with acute vision loss in the right half of the visual field.
The CT demonstrates an infarction in the contralateral visual cortex, i.e left occipital lobe.