Friday, March 16, 2007

Congenital Retinal Nonattachment

Congenital Retinal Nonattachment

General: Autosomal dominant or recessive; acquired prenatally or perinatally; retinal dysplasia typical; x-ray irradiation has been reported to cause retinal nonattachment.

Ocular: Vascularized mass behind the lens; malformation of the chamber angle and elongation of the ciliary processes; retinal dysplasia.

Clinical: Severe fragility of the bones.

McKusick VA. Mendelian Inheritance in Man; A Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders, 12th ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM. McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, February 12, 2007. World Wide Web URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/.

Warburg M. Heterogeneity of congenital retinal non-attachment falciform folds and retinal dysplasia: a guide to genetic counseling. Hum Hered 1976; 26:137-148.

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