A young woman in Poland is getting attention after speaking out on Instagram with claims that she may be Madeline McCann, the British toddler who has been missing since 2007. McCann, in case you’re ...

Coloboma is a general term used to describe conditions where the normal tissue in or around the eye is missing from birth. The missing tissues may cause gaps in one of several parts of the eye, ...

German researchers gained fundamental new insight into the development of the eye defect coloboma, said a study on Wednesday. Coloboma is a hole in one of the structures of the eye which occurs when ...

A coloboma is an eye abnormality present at birth that results from the absence of some tissues in certain parts of the eye. One or both eyes may be affected. The most obvious presentation of a ...

A 22-year-old female patient presented with refraction of −9.25/−0.50 × 70 (6/6) in the right eye and −3.00/−1.00 × 170 (6/6) in the left eye. The right eye was within the normal limits and the left ...

Development of the eye is a fascinating subject. Simultaneous invagination of the optic vesicle and the optic stalk creates the fetal fissure inferonasally, which then closes, beginning at the equator ...

Retinochoroidal coloboma is a congenital abnormality caused by faulty closure of the embryonic fissure. Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to retinochoroidal coloboma is an uncommon ...

Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a zebrafish model of NEDBEH—a rare genetic disorder that can cause coloboma, where parts of the eye are missing due to developmental ...

An iris coloboma can be simple, partial, or complete. In a simple coloboma of the iris, one or more anatomical layers of the iris are absent in the affected area. If the defect includes the pupillary ...

Coloboma is a medical condition in which normal tissue in or around the eye is missing from birth. It is believed that uveal coloboma is primarily genetic in origin. Sometimes coloboma is part of a ...