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Cleft palate and keratoconus in a child affected by fetal alcohol syndrome: an accidental association?

Pensiero S, Manna F, Michieletto P, Perissutti P

SC Oculistica, IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo di Trieste, italy. pensiero@burlo.trieste.it

This report describes the case of a 9-year-old girl affected by fetal alcohol syndrome who presented at birth with blepharophimosis and a cleft palate, which was submitted to surgery. She was referred to our hospital for a visual acuity reduction, where a diagnosis of keratoconus was made. This case highlights the rarity of the association between fetal alcohol syndrome and cleft palate and the previously unreported association involving fetal alcohol syndrome-keratoconus and cleft palate-keratoconus.

Published 11 January 2007 in Cleft Palate Craniofac J, 44(1): 95-7.
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