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A retrospective review of charts of patients with the amniotic band syndrome was conducted to analyze the ocular finding in this syndrome. Abnormal ocular findings were found in 7 patients. They included corneal opacity, corneal ulcer, eyelid ectropion, eyelid coloboma, anophthalmos, hypertelorism, protuberant eyes, and eyelid involvement by a cystic hygroma. Ophthalmic manifestations vary tremendously as a result of the timing and location of the amniotic band causing the intrauterine compression.
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Mansour, A.M., Nichols, M.M. Ocular findings in the amniotic band syndrome. Ann Ophthalmol 34, 199–202 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12009-002-0023-7
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