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Coloboma

What are the symptoms?

Vision may or may not be affected depending on the part of the eye involved. Coloboma may be unilateral (on one side) or bilateral (on both sides) and if bilateral, can be quite asymmetrical. It may be an isolated ocular finding or may be associated with other eye defects, such as Microphthalmia (small eye, see entry Anophthalmia) in the same or opposite eye and, extremely rarely, Anophthalmia (absent eye) in the opposite eye.

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Medical text written October 2004 by Miss Nicola Ragge MD FRCOphth FRCPCH, Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK and Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK and Senior Surgical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

 

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