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Aniridia

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Aniridia is the absence of the iris. It occurs in 1 in 50,000 people in the UK.

Aniridia may be associated with Wilm's tumour; one in 40 Wilms' patients have aniridia.

Aniridia may be part of a global defect in the development of the anterior segment of the eye called mesodermal dysgenesis.


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