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The aim of this study was to evaluate ocular findings in children with nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate. Fifty-seven consecutive patients with cleft lip and/or palate seeking orthodontic treatment during 2006 were examined prospectively from an ophthalmological standpoint. Mean age of the patients was 9.2 years (range: 15 days to 18 years). Of the 57 children in total, five cases (8.7%) had cleft lip, six cases (10.5%) had isolated cleft palate and 46 cases (80.7%) had both cleft lip and palate. Thirty-seven of 46 cases with cleft lip and palate were unilateral and 20 were bilateral. Eleven of the 57 patients (19.1%) had ocular findings including congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (5 patients), ptosis (1 patient), bilateral iris coloboma (1 patient), dermoid tumor (1 patient), vernal conjunctivitis (1 patient), and esophoria (1 patient). Twenty patients (35%) had one or more systemic abnormalities such as motor mental retardation, hearing loss, syndactylia, growth retardation, double urinary tract, vesicoureteral reflux, penile nevus, hypospadias, non-redundant testis, inguinal hernia, mitral valve prolapsus, ventricular septal defect, complete right bundle branch block, and hirsutism. Though not very often, cleft lip and palate patients may have several associated ocular changes, and these patients should also be examined by ophthalmologists.
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Cleft Lip/complications , Cleft Palate/complications , Eye Diseases/complications , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Prospective StudiesABSTRACT
·The authors describe a 2-month-old boy with nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate. On examination, he had bilateral inferior iris colobomas, vitreous veils, optic disc and choroid colobomas. Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) revealed bilateral colobomatous microphthalmia, retrobulber cysts and thinned optic nerves. Every infant with cleft lip and palate should be examined by an ophthalmologist to detect possible associated ocular abnormalities.
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The authors describe a patient with oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome, also called Delleman-Oorthuys syndrome. This patient is the first reported case in Turkey. The 19-month-old boy had characteristic features of oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome, such as unilateral orbital cyst, skin tags and skin hypoplasia, hypoplastic left cerebellar hemisphere, Dandy-Walker variant anomaly, corpus callosum agenesis, and left cerebral hemispheric diffuse migration anomaly.
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Abnormalities, Multiple , Eye Abnormalities/diagnosis , Nervous System Malformations/diagnosis , Skin Abnormalities/diagnosis , Abnormalities, Multiple/diagnosis , Abnormalities, Multiple/etiology , Dandy-Walker Syndrome/diagnosis , Humans , Infant , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
We describe a 7-year-old boy with classic dental and dermatologic findings of Papillon-Lefère syndrome. In addition to these manifestations, he had bilateral, almost symmetric, hypertrophic-looking corneal leukoma. This case demonstrates that patients with Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome should undergo ophthalmologic examination in addition to frequent dental examination.
