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Thirty-three eyes of 18 normal infants and children and 22 eyes of 15 infants and children in whom congenital glaucoma had been diagnosed were measured by echometry. The anterior chamber depth, vitreous length and axial length were significantly greater in glaucomatous eyes, while the lens thickness was smaller in glaucomatous eyes. The axial length of normal eyes was found to increase with age according to the equation: axial length = 18.7 + 2.245 log (age in months.) The confidence interval of the normal growth curve allows the prediction of the maximum normal axial length for any given age. In congenital glaucoma cases, in which the visual fields and daily pressure curve cannot be evaluated, clinical echometry is proposed as a very valuable diagnostic and follow-up procedure.
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Sampaolesi, R. (1981). Ocular Echometry in the Diagnosis of Congenital Glaucoma. In: Thijssen, J.M., Verbeek, A.M. (eds) Ultrasonography in Ophthalmology. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8659-6_25
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