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Bilateral optic disc pit with maculopathy in a patient with cleft lip and cleft palate
Anisha Seth1, Rajat Gupta, Anika Gupta
1Department of Ophthalmology, Guru Nanak Eye Centre, New Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Optic disc pit (ODP) is small, gray-white, oval depression found at the optic nerve head. It is a congenital defect that occurs due to imperfect closure of superior edge of the embryonic fissure. Cleft lip and palate are also congenital midline abnormalities occurring due to defect in the fusion of frontonasal prominence, maxillary prominence and mandibular prominence. There is only one case report describing the occurrence of ODP in a young patient with cleft lip and palate who also had basal encephalocele. We describe a 52-year-old patient with congenital cleft lip and palate with bilateral ODP with maculopathy but without any other midline abnormality.
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