Uveal coloboma: about 3 cases at the University Teaching Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon

Uveal coloboma is a rare eye malformation caused by failure of the optic fissure to close during the fifth to seventh weeks of foetal life. The risk of retinal detachment increases with age in colobomatous eyes. Preventive measures such as early detection of the retinal break, prophylactic laser pho...

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Autores principales: Giles, Kagmeni, Raoul, Cheuteu, Yannick, Bilong, Peter, Wiedemann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5072854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27795796
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.201.9770
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description Uveal coloboma is a rare eye malformation caused by failure of the optic fissure to close during the fifth to seventh weeks of foetal life. The risk of retinal detachment increases with age in colobomatous eyes. Preventive measures such as early detection of the retinal break, prophylactic laser photocoagulation along the coloboma margin, confer a significant benefit in reducing this risk of retinal detachment. Difficulties linked to the diagnosis and management of uveal colobomas in developing countries setting are presented in this study.
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spelling pubmed-50728542016-10-28 Uveal coloboma: about 3 cases at the University Teaching Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon Giles, Kagmeni Raoul, Cheuteu Yannick, Bilong Peter, Wiedemann Pan Afr Med J Case Report Uveal coloboma is a rare eye malformation caused by failure of the optic fissure to close during the fifth to seventh weeks of foetal life. The risk of retinal detachment increases with age in colobomatous eyes. Preventive measures such as early detection of the retinal break, prophylactic laser photocoagulation along the coloboma margin, confer a significant benefit in reducing this risk of retinal detachment. Difficulties linked to the diagnosis and management of uveal colobomas in developing countries setting are presented in this study. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5072854/ /pubmed/27795796 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.201.9770 Text en © Kagmeni Giles et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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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Uveal coloboma: about 3 cases at the University Teaching Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon
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