[Cases of traumatic (Putscher) retinopathy associated with severe facial injuries].

The author describes two men who suffered traffic accident that caused severe malar lesion, followed by unilater Purtscher's retinopathy. The prognosis of this rare retinopathy is good if the papillomacular arterial branches are not or only partially occluded, and the capillar perfusion is intact. He explains the hypothetic pathomechanism of the traumatic process, the therapeutic possibilities and their limitations. Last, he calls the attention of traumatologists to the possibility of vision-loss without any direct ocular lesions.