Introduction. The appearance of a coloboma of the iris must have been known long before Walther (15) introduced the term in 1821 since the condition is easiiy visible. The word coloboma is derived from the Greek and means the part which is taken away in mutilation or injury or the part that is lacking, that is, a defect. In coloboma iridis, therefore, a section of the iris is lacking, often bil...

Choroidal tuberculomas are present in patients with ocular tuberculosis. They usually occur a patient previous history of tuberculosis, and rarely the initial presentation, no prior systemic manifestations. We unilateral choroidal tuberculoma as presentation presumed which enabled earlier initiation treatment. Unilateral an manifestation tuberculosis: case report

Pujari A, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221547 Description A 5-month-old male child was brought with the history of right-sided corneal opacity noticed for the past 2 months. The baby was immunised until now with an uneventful antenatal and peripartum history. Ocular examination showed normal sized cornea having a paracentral nebular opacity along the inferior and nasal aspect ...

exudative retinal detachment (erd) may be seen with many ocular pathologies including malignancies. among malignant causes, metastases of breast and lung carcinoma are most common. a 50-year-old woman referred to our clinic with history of decreased visual acuity in her right eye since 3 months before referral. the visual acuity was counting fingers at 2 meters and 6/10 in the right and left ey...

Lens coloboma is a developmental defect resulting from abnormalities of the zonules and ciliary body. It may present as an isolated pathology or be accompanied by anomalies in different ocular structures. We report case 20-year-old man referred for evaluation anisometropic amblyopia right eye. Manifest refraction was −2.25 +3.00 ×35 eye; corrected distance visual acuity, 20/50. Corneal topograp...

White sponge naevus occurred in association with coloboma of the iris in six members of one family, across three generations. The association of these two dominantly inherited conditions has not to our knowledge previously been described.