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Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Kunkmann-Wolffian bodies

Kunkmann-Wolffian bodies

Category(ies): Glaucoma, Iris
Contributor: Jesse Vislisel, MD
Photographer: Antoinette Venckus, CRA

Kunkmann-Wolffian bodies are hypopigmented areas of peripheral iris stromal hyperplasia in patients without Down syndrome. They are clinically indistinguishable from Brushfield spots which are seen in individuals with Down syndrome.