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Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:1379-1381.

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Following Jadassohn's¹ report in 1895, congenital ocular findings such as epibulbar choristomas (lipodermoids, aberrant lacrimal glands, cartilage), corneal pannus, colobomas (eyelid, iris, retina or choroid, optic nerve), and optic nerve hypoplasia² but not macro optic discs have been described in combination with a facial nevus sebaceus.

Report of a Case

A 42-year-old man was first seen with a dark lesion on the left side of the forehead (4x4 cm, Figure 1, A). Best-corrected visual acuity was 0.7 OD and 0.4 OS with a refractive error of-0.5 diopter OU. The right eye showed a superior corneal pannus and an elevated yellowish subconjunctival mass parallel to the superior limbus. The left eye showed an incomplete coloboma of the upper eyelid and an elevated mass adjacent to the nasal limbus. A scleral staphyloma was located at the 5-o'clock position and a corneal pannus in the inferotemporal quadrant (Figure 1, B). In addition, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author: Friedrich E. Kruse, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany (e-mail: Friedrich_Kruse@ukl.uni-heidelberg.de).

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