title: Congenital myopia and retinal detachment.
abstract: Retinal detachment is unusual in children and is often associated with other serious ocular abnormalities. In more than 25 children varying in age from 3 to 16 years in whom the common ocular complication was congenital myopia, associated features included facial abnormalities and other changes often associated with familial and inherited conditions. A very high incidence of giant retinal breaks was found and these were associated with considerable difficulty in treatment.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital*; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000150:complications*