Congenital cystic eye: a clinicopathologic study

J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2010 Aug 23:47 Online:e1-4. doi: 10.3928/01913913-20100818-13.

Abstract

Congenital cystic eye is an extremely rare congenital ocular anomaly where a cystic mass or neuroglial tissue replaces normal eyeball secondary to failure of invagination of the optic vesicle. The authors describe a case of a 13-year-old girl, including clinical, imaging, intraoperative, and histopathological findings of this uncommon malformation. In addition, it was associated with ectopic glial tissue in the brain, which is also a rare association of this anomaly.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cysts / congenital*
  • Cysts / diagnostic imaging
  • Cysts / pathology*
  • Cysts / surgery
  • Eye Diseases / congenital*
  • Eye Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Eye Diseases / pathology*
  • Eye Diseases / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Orbit / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed