Korean J Obstet Gynecol.
1997 Mar;40(3):645-651.
A Case of Cyclopia Delivered from a Diabetic Mother
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea.
Abstract
- Cyclopia is a rare congenital fetal anomaly, characterized by a single median eye and a grotesquily shaped nose(proboscis) that arises from the supraorbital area. It is consistently associated with serere holoprosencephaly, which is the failure of cleavage of the prosencephalon with a deficite in the midiline facial development. Holoprosencepphaly occurs in as many as 1 to 2 % of diabetic mothers. A case of cyclopia delivered from a diabetic mother is presented with a brief review of literatures.
