Polycoria in a Young Girl.

Safi, Antoine;Schalenbourg, Ann;Kawasaki, Aki
(2020) JAMA Ophthalmology — Vol. 138, n° 9, p. e200656 (2020)

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A 9-year-old girl in good health was noted to have 2 holes in her left iris on a routine examination. The presence of multiple iris holes is most commonly called pseudopolycoria, because only the central pupil has a sphincter muscle and can constrict. Iris holes without muscle tissue arise as congenital defects or develop from ocular trauma, inflammation, or degeneration and are thus not considered to be true accessory pupils. [...]
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Safi, A., Schalenbourg, A., & Kawasaki, A. (2020). Polycoria in a Young Girl. JAMA Ophthalmology, 138(9), e200656. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.0656 (Original work published 2020)