A Case of Congenital Anophthalmos.

Kim, Hae Gon; Rho, Sae Heun

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1987;28(2):477-482.
Published online February 1, 1987.

A Case of Congenital Anophthalmos.

Hae Gon Kim, Sae Heun Rho

Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Pusan Paik Hospital, Inje College, Pusan, Korea.

선천성 무안구증 1 예

김해곤(Hae Gon Kim),노세현(Sae Heun Rho)

Abstract

Anophthalmos is a complete absence of the tissues of the eye. Embryologically, anophthalmos denotes those cases wherein there is complete failure in the outgrowth of the primary optic vesicle. When essential structures of the eye are present, the aonormality is microphthalmos, no matter how small the eye may be. Clinical anophthalmos represents the majority of cases in which the eye appears to be absent. Congenital anophthalmos is one of the rare ophthalmic anomalies, only 5 cases were reported in Korea and about 100 cases in the world. We report this case with a brief review of literatures.