We report the diagnosis and treatment of patients with retinal detachment and/or retinoschisis associated with optic nerve coloboma or morning glory syndrome. A retrospective review of patients ...

2. A uveal coloboma that is large enough to involve the optic nerve, either the inferior portion or the entire optic disc.

The excavated optic disc abnormalities comprise optic disc coloboma, morning glory syndrome, and peripapillary staphyloma. Optic nerve hypoplasia manifests as a small optic nerve, which may or may ...

Preoperative IOL power assessment is difficult in eyes with coloboma extending to the macula and optic disc due to high variability in axial length measurements. Small changes in the orientation ...

Morning glory disc anomaly seems to be caused by the ... Morning glory syndrome is sometimes misdiagnosed as an optic nerve coloboma due to their similarities. In both cases, the optic nerve ...

If the optic fissure doesn’t come together all the way, the result is a coloboma of some sort. While there is evidence that colobomas are genetic, scientists aren’t sure yet which genes cause ...

and the macula that connects the retina to the optic nerve. A coloboma forms during fetal development when tissues of the eye don't come together and close completely as they are supposed to.