Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes

Isolated microcornea is a very rarely-described condition of reduced cornea size (less than 11 mm horizontal diameter) in an individual without other significant ocular (or systemic) findings. This case report describes the biometric features of a boy with isolated microcornea (the youngest and most...

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Autores principales: Hazin, Ribhi, Khan, Arif O.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21346844
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.51999
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description Isolated microcornea is a very rarely-described condition of reduced cornea size (less than 11 mm horizontal diameter) in an individual without other significant ocular (or systemic) findings. This case report describes the biometric features of a boy with isolated microcornea (the youngest and most completely described patient to the best of our knowledge) and suggests that the condition is the same entity as relative anterior microphthalmos.
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spelling pubmed-30381152011-02-23 Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes Hazin, Ribhi Khan, Arif O. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report Isolated microcornea is a very rarely-described condition of reduced cornea size (less than 11 mm horizontal diameter) in an individual without other significant ocular (or systemic) findings. This case report describes the biometric features of a boy with isolated microcornea (the youngest and most completely described patient to the best of our knowledge) and suggests that the condition is the same entity as relative anterior microphthalmos. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC3038115/ /pubmed/21346844 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.51999 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hazin, Ribhi
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Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes
title Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes
title_full Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes
title_fullStr Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes
title_short Isolated Microcornea: Case Report and Relation to Other “Small Eye” Phenotypes
title_sort isolated microcornea: case report and relation to other “small eye” phenotypes
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21346844
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.51999
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