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Abstract #46868 Published in IGR 13-3
Concurrent presentation of aniridia and megalocornea without glaucoma
Lipsky SN; Salim SJournal of AAPOS 2011; 15: 297-298
We report an 18-month-old boy who presented with aniridia and megalocornea but no evidence of glaucoma. In children with aniridia, glaucoma often does not present with buphthalmos; because, it typically manifests in preadolescence or adolescence, as progressive changes occur in the drainage angle. Megalocornea, however, in the presence of aniridia strongly suggests glaucoma in early infancy. This case represents a previously unreported association of aniridia and megalocornea in an otherwise-healthy child with good vision.
S. Salim. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Hamilton Eye Institute, 930 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, United States.
Classification:
9.1.3 Syndromes of Axenfeld, Rieger, Peters, aniridia (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.1 Developmental glaucomas)
