Walsh & Hoyt: Optic Pit

Identifier wh_ch3_p166
Title Walsh & Hoyt: Optic Pit
Creator Michael C. Brodsky, MD
Affiliation Mayo Health System
Subject Eye Abnormalities; Optic Pit; Optic Disc Anomalies; Congenital Optic Nerve Anomalies
Description An optic pit is a round or oval, gray, white, or yellowish depression in the optic disc. Wiethe first described two black depressions with an olive-gray tint within the optic disc of a 62-year-old woman. Early investigators labeled these depressions as colobomas, crater-like holes, congenital holes, and congenital pits. Reis estimated the frequency of optic pits to be approximately 1 in 11,000a figure later confirmed by Kranenburg. Numerous reports of familial optic pits suggest an autosomal-dominant mode of transmission.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh and Hoyt Textbook Selections Collection: https://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s63234cv
Setname ehsl_novel_whts
ID 186192
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63234cv
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