Anophthalmia plus syndrome
Synonyms: Fryns microphthalmia syndrome | Microphthalmia with facial clefting
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.
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