Five Cases of Hereditary Congenital Cataracts in One Family.
- Author:
Dong Gun KIM
1
;
Byung Joo YOON
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Blindness;
Cataract*;
Humans;
Wills
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1987;28(5):1101-1104
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
The congenital cataract is the relatively common cause of the blindness in childhood, and its etiology is multiple but most of etiology is unknown. The inheritance is the largest single category of cause of congenital cataract. The modes of the inheritance are autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive and X-linked. The autosomal dominant inheritance is the most common type. We experienced hereditary congenital cataract, which transmitted with autosomal dominant inheritance. So we reported this patients with review of literatures.
