Resumen

MENDEZ SANCHEZ, Teresita de J; NARANJO FERNANDEZ, Rosa M; PEDROSO LLANES, Alina  y  PADILLA GONZALEZ, Carmen M. Ciancia's syndrome: Surgical results. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2004, vol.17, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

Ciancia's syndrome accounts approximately for 10 % of the congenital esotropias. It is characterized by a generally open deviation angle, limitation of abduction and jerk nystagmus. A descriptive prospective study of 21 patients that visited the office of pediatric ophthalmology at "Pando Ferrer" Ophthalmological Hospital from January 2000 to January 2002 was conducted aimed at describing the age of appearance, diagnosis and surgery of the studied cases, and at identifying the predominant refractive defect and describing the signs and associated diseases, determining the surgical results and the correlation existing between the age of alignment and the sensorial results obtained. In the studied sample, the age of appearance of the ocular deviation was between birth and 2 months of age in 62 % of the patients. In the first year of life, 66.7 % of the children that underwent surgery from 13 to 17 months of age were diagnosed. 81.0 % of the patients were surgically aligned. The most frequent association was with hyperfunction of the obliquus inferior muscle. The 14 patients aligned between 13 and 17 months of age attained fusion and stereopsis

Palabras clave : diagnosis [surgery].