“Flocculus Neonatorum”: A Self-Resolving Benign Nodular Flocculus of the Iris in the Newborn

“Flocculus Neonatorum”: A Self-Resolving Benign Nodular Flocculus of the Iris in the Newborn

Ashton et al describe their experience in a small community hospital with self-resolving nodular iris flocculi in their population of newborns. Nodular flocculi are classified as central cysts of iris pigment epithelial cells and described as grape-like clusters of darkly pigmented excrescences loca...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical pediatrics 1998-05, Vol.37 (5), p.323-326
Hauptverfasser: Ashton, W. Scott, Adkins, Carolyn S., Deizer, Damien R.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Birth Weight
Cancer
Continental Population Groups
Eye Diseases - congenital
Eye Diseases - diagnosis
Eye Diseases - epidemiology
Eyes & eyesight
Female
Gestational Age
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Iris - physiopathology
Male
Medical sciences
Ophthalmology
Pediatrics
Primary Health Care
Remission, Spontaneous
Uvea diseases
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Zusammenfassung:Ashton et al describe their experience in a small community hospital with self-resolving nodular iris flocculi in their population of newborns. Nodular flocculi are classified as central cysts of iris pigment epithelial cells and described as grape-like clusters of darkly pigmented excrescences located along the pupillary margin.
ISSN:0009-9228
1938-2707
DOI:10.1177/000992289803700509