Ciliary body is not hyperplastic in Weill-Marchesani syndrome.
OBJECTIVE
To demonstrate the in-vivo morphology of the ciliary body in Weill-Marchesani syndrome which might be of pathophysiological importance for the spherical shape of the crystalline lens.


METHODS
Three juvenile patients with Marchesani syndrome were examined by ultrasound biomicroscopy of the anterior segment.


RESULTS
The in-vivo configuration of the ciliary body in these Weill-Marchesani patients with normal axial length of the eye showed no signs of hyperplasia, and was even relatively small.


CONCLUSIONS
Spherophakia and hyperplasia of the ciliary body are not necessarily associated with the syndrome, as supposed by Marchesani and other investigators. Instead, spherophakia might be regularly accompanied by a small ciliary body in Weill-Marchesani syndrome.
Dietlein
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Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.
Jacobi
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PC
Krieglstein
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GK
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D000869:Anterior Eye Segment / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000002:abnormalities; D002924:Ciliary Body / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000151:congenital*; D004392:Dwarfism / Q000151:congenital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000002:abnormalities; D009216:Myopia / Q000150:complications; D013577:Syndrome; D014130:Trabeculectomy; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014792:Visual Acuity