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Anaphthalmos - Coggle Diagram
Anaphthalmos
Causes
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Exposure to certain chemicals, drugs, pesticides or alcohol during pregnancy
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Nursing management
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Prosthetics will be used in anophthalmia as well as surgery to expand the palpebral fissures (opening of the eye between the upper and lower lids) and orbit (boney eye socket).
Pathophysiology
Anophthalmia occurs when the neuroectoderm of the primary optic vesicle fails to develop properly from the anterior neural plate of the neural tube during embryological development.
The more commonly seen microphthalmia can result from a problem in development of the globe at any stage of growth of the optic vesicle.
Definition
Is the absence of eyeball, it may be results in failure in the formation of the optic vesicle