[Unilateral cryptophthalmos (a clinical and morphological study)].

Cryptophthalmos is a rare ocular cup malformation, which is classified among autosomal dominant inherited diseases, but often it occurs sporadically. The pathology is characterized by the absence of eyelids or palpebral fissure or their hypoplasia, as well as by abnormal development of the eye, especially of its anterior segment. The article describes a case of total cryptophthalmos without any associated malformations, with macrophthalmos on the right eye and abortive cryptophthalmos on the left in a one-year old girl. A pathomorphological investigation of the enucleated right eyeball was carried out.