Four Cases of Morning Glory Syndrome.

Jung, Gun; Yoon, Hee Sung; Lee, Sang Hyup; Eum, Boo Sup

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1988;29(5):981-987.
Published online May 1, 1988.

Four Cases of Morning Glory Syndrome.

Gun Jung, Hee Sung Yoon, Sang Hyup Lee, Boo Sup Eum

Department of Opthalmology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.

Morning Glory syndrome 4 예

정근(Gun Jung),윤희성(Hee Sung Yoon),이상협(Sang Hyup Lee),엄부섭(Boo Sup Eum)

Abstract

Morning glory syndrome is a rare congenital clinical entity that results from abnormal optic nerve development. In 1970, Kindler reported on ten patients having this anomaly and coined the term "morning glory syndrome" because of its similarity to the flower. The ophthalmoscopic picture is characterized by an enlarged pink excavated optic disk containing a mass of white tissue at its center, surrounding the disk is a wide, grey, elevated annulus of chorioretinal pigment disturbance. The retinal vessels appear as multiple radially oriented branches near the edge of the disk. Vision is usually markedly reduced. We experienced four cases of morning glory syndrome demonstrating various ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic features.