Retinal vascular abnormality in Poland’s syndrome

Editor,—Poland’s syndrome is a congenital anomaly first described in 18411 consisting of unilateral hypoplasia or aplasia of the pectoralis major muscle and ipsilateral upper extremity abnormalities which often include ipsilateral syndactyly. Since then a number of associated anomalies have been reported. These include absence of the pectoralis minor muscle, absence or atrophy of ipsilateral ribs two to five, aplasia of the ipsilateral breast or nipple, and simian crease of the affected extremity. Although vascular alterations associated with this syndrome have been described,2 no involvement of eye vasculature has been reported …