Whitman Mary C, Jurgens Julie A, Hunter David G, Engle Elizabeth C
Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital;, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital;, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
The purpose of this overview is to: 1.. Describe the clinical characteristics of congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (CFEOM); 2.. Review the genetic causes of CFEOM; 3.. Review the disorders to consider the differential diagnosis of CFEOM; 4.. Provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of CFEOM in a proband (when possible); 5.. Review management of CFEOM; 6.. Inform genetic counseling of family members of an individual with CFEOM.