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Albinism

  • Oculocutaneous albinism
    Hair, skin and eyes
    Auto-recessive
    Photophobia and squinting
  • Ocular albinism
    Skin normal
    Nystagmus
    Iris translucent
    Poor visual acuity
    X Linked auto-recessive

Darier's disease

  • Red to brown skin papules and scales, nail anomalies
  • Corneal opacities

Ichthyosis

  • Skin scaling
  • Scales on lashes and lids, SPK
  • Some forms have white cornea stromal opacities
  • "KID syndrome": keratitis, ichthyosis, and deafness

Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome)

  • X linked dominant (97% females - males die)
  • "Marble cake" skin hyperpigmentation
  • Nipple defects
  • Retinal pigment changes
  • Retinal vascular occlusion and neovascularization

Hypomelanosis of Ito

  • Hypopigmented whorls in skin
  • Strabismus, pin-point pupils

Xeroderma pigmentosum

  • Extreme photosensitivity, pterygia, dry eye
  • Carcinomas

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

  • Hyperextensible skin and joints
  • Skin scars easily
  • Keratoconus, blue sclera, angiod streaks, subluxation of lens

Juvinile Xanthogranuloma

  • Rubbery skin nodules on head and neck
  • Iris tumor, spontaneous hyphema, glaucoma

Phakomatoses

Neurofibromatosis

  • "Cafe au lait" spot
  • Glaucoma, optic nerve glioma

Tuberous sclerosis

  • "Adenoma sebaceum" facial angiofibromas
  • Retinal hamartoma

Sturge-Weber syndrome

  • "Nevus flammeus" hemangioma
  • Glaucoma, choroidal hemangioma

 

Von Hipple-Lindau sundrome

  • Reyinal hemangioma

Wyburn-Mason syndrome

  • Retinal racemose hemangioma
 

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