title: Bilateral optic disc pit with maculopathy in a patient with cleft lip and cleft palate.
abstract: Optic disc pit (ODP) is small, gray-white, oval depression found at the optic nerve head. It is a congenital defect that occurs due to imperfect closure of superior edge of the embryonic fissure. Cleft lip and palate are also congenital midline abnormalities occurring due to defect in the fusion of frontonasal prominence, maxillary prominence and mandibular prominence. There is only one case report describing the occurrence of ODP in a young patient with cleft lip and palate who also had basal encephalocele. We describe a 52-year-old patient with congenital cleft lip and palate with bilateral ODP with maculopathy but without any other midline abnormality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Guru Nanak Eye Centre, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Anisha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seth
authors.forename: Rajat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Anika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Usha K
authors.initials: UK
authors.lastname: Raina
authors.forename: Basudeb
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ghos
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000002:abnormalities*; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence