The Congenital Eyelids and Eyeball Defermities in Siblings.
- Author:
Young Sae KWACK
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Coloboma;
Eyelids*;
Female;
Humans;
Microphthalmos;
Siblings*
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1971;12(2):81-83
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Congenital cryptophthalmos is very rare, according with Duke-Elder's System of Ophthalmology(Volume 3, Part 2) some 50 cases having been recorded since Zehender and Manz's(1872) original observation. I observed the congenital ocular deiermities in siblings; out of 10 siblings, 2 were affected. A 15-year old girl had cryptophthalmos unilaterally with other gross anomalies of the face. One of her brother (27-year old) had congenital microblepharon, coloboma of eyelids, microphthalmos and symblepharon bilaterally. The surgical amelioration of cryptophthalmos was attempted but it was impossible.
