A Case of Congenital Coloboma of Optic Nerve Head

ABSTRACT

A case of congenital coloboma of the optic nerve head with surrounding choroidal atrophy in left eye, who was 16 years old male, is reported. The most characteristic features of this case were increase in size and shape of the disc, the ectasia of the surface, the depth and the striking whiteness, type of the vessels and their special arrangement. We described the clinical findings and attempted to survey the embryological causes and heredity with brief review of the literatures.