Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2016

A STUDY OF CONGENITAL OCULAR ANOMALIES IN PAEDIATRIC AGE GROUP.

Tupe Parag N, Chaudhari Sagar V

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 Purpose: To study the pattern of congenital ocular anomalies in paediatric age group. Materials & Methods: In this study total 9350 patients were screened. The age and sex of the patient, gestational age, occurrence of consanguineous, distribution of various subtype of congenital anomalies, subtype of congenital cataract, age at presentation and diagnosis were noted. Results: The age variation in the study was between 0–12 years. The maximum number of patients were in the age group of 0–2 years. Male: female ratio was 1:1.4. More number cases were reported in anterior segment with full term delivery.32 cases having no positive history of consanguineous marriage. Total 12 cases were found about chronic dacryocystitis, 8 cases of coloboma of iris and choroid and each 5 cases of congenital cataract and Microhthalmos were found. None of the cases had any history of antenatal, obstetric complication, radiation and drug intake. Conclusion: A prevalence of 0.053% of congenital ocular anomalies. Most common anomaly was congenital dacryocystitis (24%), congenital cataract and microphthalmos being the second most common anomalies (14%) each

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Tupe Parag N, Chaudhari Sagar V A STUDY OF CONGENITAL OCULAR ANOMALIES IN PAEDIATRIC AGE GROUP. International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 5 MAY 2016

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