Table 1.
Clinical features of 13 consecutive patients with limbal dermoids or conjunctival fornix dermolipomas
| Case no./sex/laterality | The age at initial visit | The age at surgery | The age at final visit | Location | Size (clock hour) and shape | Preauricular appendage | Refractive error in affected eye at earlier visit Diopter (axis) |
Refractive error in affected eye/contralateral eye at final visit Diopter (axis) |
Best-corrected visual acuity in affected eye/contralateral eye at final visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | |||||||||
| 1/M/Left | 1 yr. 9 mo. | 2 yr. 4 mo. | 12 yr. 8 mo. | Limbus | 1 h | No | s. + 1.0 c. − 1.0 (165) | s. + 1.0 c. − 1.0 (180) | 1.2 |
| Dome-like | s. + 0.75 c.0 | 1.2 | |||||||
| 2/M/Left | 3 mo. | 1 yr. 5 mo. | 7 yr. 11 mo. | Limbus | 1 h | Yes | s.0 c. − 1.0 (135) | s. + 0.5 c.0 | 1.2 |
| Dome-like | Resectiona | s. + 0.5 c.0 | 1.2 | ||||||
| 3/F/Right | 4 yr. 0 mo. | 4 yr. 8 mo. | 8 yr. 8 mo. | Limbus | 2 h | No | s. + 4.0 c. − 1.5 (180) | s. + 3.5 c. − 1.75 (180) | 1.2 |
| Dome-like | s. + 2.25 c.0 | 1.2 | |||||||
| 4/M/Right | 5 yr. 0 mo. | 18 yr. 1 mo. | 19 yr. 4 mo. | Limbus | 2 h | No | s. + 8.5 c. − 3.5 (30) | s. + 3.0 c. − 4.0 (30) | 0.7 |
| Dome-like | s. + 2.25 c.0 | 1.2 | |||||||
| 5/M/Right | 2 yr. 4 mo. | 4 yr. 4 mo. | 9 yr. 6 mo. | Limbus | 2 h | Yes | s. + 3.75 c. − 5.0 (30) | s. + 3.5 c. − 7.0 (40) | 0.7 |
| Dome-like | Resectiona | s. − 0.25 c. − 1.25 (90) | 1.5 | ||||||
| 6/F/Left | 3 yr. 7 mo. | 6 yr. 5 mo. | 11 yr. 0 mo. | Fornix | No | s. + 0.75 c.0 | s. − 3.25 c.0 | 1.5 | |
| s. − 2.5 c.0 | 1.5 | ||||||||
| 7/F/Left | 4 yr. 6 mo. | 15 yr. 9 mo. | 16 yr. 2 mo. | Limbus | 2 h | No | s. + 2.5 c. − 4.0 (165) | s. + 0.5 c. − 5.0 (165) | 1.0 |
| Dome-like | s. − 0.5 c. − 1.5 (165) | 1.0 | |||||||
| 8/F/Right | 2 mo. | 1 yr. 1 mo. | 2 yr. 2 mo. | Fornix | Yes | Not measured | s.0 c. − 1.0 (65) | Not measured | |
| Resectiona | s.0 c. − 1.0 (75) | Not measured | |||||||
| No surgery | |||||||||
| 9/M/Right | 1 mo. | No surgery | 3 yr. 0 mo. | Limbus | 2 h | No | s. + 0.5 c.0 | s. − 4.25 c. − 0.75 (60) | 1.0 |
| Flat | s. − 3.75 c. − 0.5 (90) | 1.0 | |||||||
| 10/M/Right | 1 yr. 11 mo. | No surgery | 6 yr. 1 mo. | Fornix | Yes | s. + 1.5 c.0 | s. + 0.5 c.0 | 1.2 | |
| s. + 0.5 c.0 | 1.2 | ||||||||
| 11/F/Right | 4 mo. | No surgery | 3 yr. 2 mo. | Limbus | 1 h | Yes | s. + 1.0 c.0 | s. + 4.5 c. − 2.75 (60) | 0.8 |
| Dome-like | s. + 0.5 c.0 | 0.8 | |||||||
| 12/M/Left | 2 yr. 5 mo. | No surgery | 3 yr. 9 mo. | Limbus | 1 h | No | s. + 1.0 c. − 0.5 (180) | s. + 0.5 c.0 | 1.0 |
| Flat | s. + 0.5 c. − 1.0 (140) | 1.0 | |||||||
| 13/M/Right | 1 yr. 1 mo. | No surgery | 2 yr. 6 mo. | Limbus | 2 h | Yes | s. + 0.5 c. − 0.5 (180) | s. + 0.5 c. − 0.5 (180) | Not measured |
| Flat | Resectionb | s. + 0.5 c.0 | Not measured | ||||||
Refractive error at earlier visit means the error at initial visit or at the visit, nearest to the initial visit
Visual acuity in decimals, determined by Landolt-C
“Not measured” due to younger age
M male, F female, Limbus inferotemporal corneal limbus, fornix temporal conjunctival fornix, yr. year, mo. month, h hour, s. spherical lens, c. cylindrical lens
aConcurrent resection of preauricular appendage, together with dermoid
bResection of preauricular appendage at the age of 1 year