Bilateral Duane retraction syndrome with optic nerve hypoplasia
Anand Kumar1, Shashikant Shetty, P Vijayalakshmi
1Department of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Bombay City Eye Institute and Research Center, Mumbai, India.
Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
|January 11, 2011
Abstract:
The authors report a unique case of a child with the infrequent association of bilateral Duane retraction syndrome with underdevelopment of the anterior visual pathway. Both conditions were caused presumably due to a common disturbance of neuronal development during the second month of embryogenesis.
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