Anophthalmia plus syndrome

A very rare multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterized by the presence of anophthalmia or severe microphthalmia, cleft lip/palate, facial cleft and sacral neural tube defects, along with various additional anomalies including congenital glaucoma, iris coloboma, primary hyperplastic vitreous, hypertelorism, low-set ears, clinodactyly, choanal atresia/stenosis, dysgenesis of sacrum, tethering of spinal cord, syringomyelia, hypoplasia of corpus callosum, cerebral ventriculomegaly and endocrine abnormalities. An autosomal recessive inheritance has been suggested.

Microphthalmia

A developmental anomaly characterized by abnormal smallness of one or both eyes.


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PMID (PMCID)
25804017
FEMALE Infant, Newborn
Fryns anophthalmia-plus syndrome: two rare cases.
Bozkurt O, Bidev D, Sari FN, Dizdar EA, Ulu HO, Uras N, Oguz SS, Canpolat FE, Dilmen U.
Genet Couns. 2014;25(4):395-8.
Fryns anophthalmia-plus syndrome is a rare syndrome with clinical diversity primarily including anophthalmia/microphthalmia, facial clefts, cleft lip/palate, ear and nasal deformities.