EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Glaucoma
Diagnosis: hydrophthalmos OU-blind OU

Image Comments:

Hydrophthalmos is a primary congenital glaucoma that leads to enlargement of the eye as a result of increased pressure in a still-elastic young eye.Although the term buphthalmos is used synonymously with hydropthalmos, in India where there are so many cases of secondary glaucoma with marked enlargement of the cornea and eyeball itself, Dr. Caccamise would prefer to use buphthalmos for those cases of secondary glaucoma with eyeball/cornea enlargement in infants and young children.

 

 

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