Description

Occasionally the left and right irides may show a difference in color (heterochromia). In hypochromic heterochromia the abnormal iris has a lighter color than the normal (opposite) iris.


 

Differential diagnosis of hypochromic heterochromia:

(1) Waardenburg-Klein syndrome

(2) Bourneville syndrome (tuberous sclerosis hypopigmented iris spot)

(3) Bremer syndrome (dysraphicus syndrome)

(4) Parry-Romberg syndrome (facial hemiatrophy)

(5) iris coloboma

(6) iris atrophy

(7) infiltration of the iris by a hypopigmented tumor

(8) hypomelanosis of Ito syndrome

(9) Horner’s syndrome

(10) Posner-Schlossman syndrome (glaucomatocyclitic crisis)

(11) Fuchs syndrome (heterochromic cyclitis syndrome)

(12) Conradi syndrome (epiphyseal congenital dysplasia)

(13) Chediak-Higashi syndrome

(14) unilateral iritis and anemia

(15) congenital (sporadic or familial)

 


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