The Congenital Eyelids and Eyeball Defermities in Siblings.

Kwack, Young Sae

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1971;12(2):81-83.
Published online January 1, 2001.

The Congenital Eyelids and Eyeball Defermities in Siblings.

Young Sae Kwack

Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

남매에 온 선천적 안검과 (眼瞼) 안구의 기형

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.