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Prenatal Ultrasonographic Detection of Ophthalmic Diseases

Ella Leung, MD; Magaly Diaz-Barbosa, MD; Chrisfouad Alabiad, MD; Elizabeth Hodapp, MD; David Tse, MD; Timothy G. Murray, MD; Juan Carlos Castaner, MD; Dibe Martin, MD; Audina M. Berrocal, MD

  • Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
  • DOI: 10.3928/01913913-20120515-02
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Abstract

Four patients with prenatal sonographic findings suggestive of ophthalmic pathology were detected in utero. The definitive diagnoses of infantile fibrosarcoma, persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous/persistent fetal vasculature, Fraser syndrome, and microphthalmia with coloboma and retrobulbar cyst were made postnatally. High-resolution intrauterine sonograms expedited ophthalmic referral and influenced prenatal planning.

AUTHORS

From the Department of Ophthalmology (EL, CA, EH, DT, TGM, AMB), Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; the Department of Pediatrics (MD-B), Division of Neonatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Maternal Fetal Medicine (JCC), San Juan, Puerto Rico; and South Florida Perinatal Medicine (DM), Miami, Florida.

The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.

Address correspondence to Audina M. Berrocal, MD, 900 NW 17th St., Suite 243, Miami, FL 33136. E-mail: aberrocal@med.miami.edu

doi: 10.3928/01913913-20120515-02

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