Two Cases of Waardenburg's Syndrome.

Moon, Yeon Sung; Kim, Jae Chan

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1986;27(4):735-740.
Published online April 1, 1986.

Two Cases of Waardenburg's Syndrome.

Yeon Sung Moon, Jae Chan Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Choong-Ang University, Korea.

Waardenburg 씨 증후군 2예

김재찬(Jae Chan Kim),문연성(Yeon Sung Moon)

Abstract

Waardenburg's syndrome is a very rare hereditary disease with the outstanding clinical characteristics including lateral displacement of the medial canthi of the eyes and of the inferior lacrimal puncta, a broad, prominent root of the nose, hyperplasia of the medial protions of the eye-brows, white or grey forelock, partial or total heterochromia of the irides, and neurosensory deaf-mutism. The authors recently experienced two cases of Waardenburg's syndrome in a 25 year old female and a 20 year old male. So, the literature of the Waardenburg's syndrome was briefly reviewed with clinical history.