Congenital cryptophthalmps is very rare, according with Duke-Elder´s System of Ophthalmology (Volume 3, Part 2) some 50 cases having been recorded since Zehender and Manz´s(1872) original observation.
I observed the congenital ocular, defermities in siblings; out of 10 siblings, 2 were affected.
A 15-year old girl had cryptophthalmos unilaterally with other gross anomalies of the face. One of her brother (27-year old) had congenital microblepharon, coloboma of eyelids, microphthalmos and symblepharon bilate ,rally.
The surgical amelioration of cryptophthalmos was attempted but it was impossible.
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