title: A colobomatous optic disc anomaly and associated retinal detachement.
abstract: A case is presented of a two-year-old white female with an optic nerve anomaly and an associated retinal detachment. A unilateral colobomatous disc was noted to be surrounded by a chorioretinal pigmentary alteration in the form of an annulus. A clear zone with absence pigmentation ringed the more central gray-black area. The retinal vessels were noted to come directly out of the deeply colobomatous disc area and to run between the cystic convolutions of the adiacent retinal tissue. A surrounding area of retinal detachment extended for a distance of three disc diameters from the disc. This case is one of a few yet reported in the literature.
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003103:Coloboma; D003560:Cysts; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000002:abnormalities*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000151:congenital*; D012171:Retinal Vessels