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Anophthalmia

Background

Anophthalmia is a rare congenital (present at birth) abnormality in which a baby has no eye in the socket. If the eye is small, this is called microphthalmia. Anophthalmia can affect both eyes, causing blindness, or just one eye. The other eye may have less severe eye development anomalies, such as microphthalmia, cataract, corneal opacity or coloboma. Anophthalmia or severe microphthalmia occurs in 19 in 100,000 live births.

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Medical text written November 1995 by Mr AJ Vivian, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, UK. Last updated December 2011 by Professor N Ragge, Professor in Medical Genetics, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

 

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