Saturday, March 17, 2007

Corneal Hypesthesia, Familial

Corneal Hypesthesia, Familial

General: Autosomal dominant; decreased corneal sensation, reflex tearing, blinking, and foreign body sensation.

Ocular: Punctate epithelial erosions; corneal edema; neurotrophic keratitis; corneal ulcers; poor blinking; decreased tearing; decreased corneal sensation.

Clinical: Trigeminal anesthesia; hypoplastic trigeminal nerves and gasserian ganglia.

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/.

Purcell JJ, et al. Familial corneal hypesthesia. Arch Ophthalmol 1979; 97:872~874.

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