Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2015)

Bilateral optic disc pit with maculopathy in a patient with cleft lip and cleft palate

  • Anisha Seth,
  • Rajat Gupta,
  • Anika Gupta,
  • Usha K Raina,
  • Basudeb Ghos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.158089
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 63, no. 4
pp. 346 – 348

Abstract

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Optic disc pit (ODP) is small, gray-white, oval depression found at the optic nerve head. It is a congenital defect that occurs due to imperfect closure of superior edge of the embryonic fissure. Cleft lip and palate are also congenital midline abnormalities occurring due to defect in the fusion of frontonasal prominence, maxillary prominence and mandibular prominence. There is only one case report describing the occurrence of ODP in a young patient with cleft lip and palate who also had basal encephalocele. We describe a 52-year-old patient with congenital cleft lip and palate with bilateral ODP with maculopathy but without any other midline abnormality.

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