Congenital myopia and retinal detachment.

Retinal detachment is unusual in children and is often associated with other serious ocular abnormalities. In more than 25 children varying in age from 3 to 16 years in whom the common ocular complication was congenital myopia, associated features included facial abnormalities and other changes often associated with familial and inherited conditions. A very high incidence of giant retinal breaks was found and these were associated with considerable difficulty in treatment.