Eight children with the fetal alcohol syndrome are described with ocular anomalies. They all had a strong history of maternal alcohol abuse throughout pregnancy, especially in the first trimester. All the children had eye abnormalities. These included external eye lesions, Peters' anomaly, lens opacification, ocular motility disorders, and optic nerve hypoplasia.Fetal alcohol syndrome is characterised by at least three of the following findings: (1) A 6-month-old boy was born at 41 weeks gestation with meconium grade 3. He had a marked bradycephaly, developmental delay, a right congenital dislocation of hip, and an inguinal
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