Fig. 2 Cryptophthalmos. A. Patient with partial cryptophthalmos demonstrates skin adherent to the cornea, lack of eyelids medially, and abnormal eyelids laterally. Hair stream extends across forehead to cryptophthalmic area. B. Postoperative appearance shows dissection of the skin from the cornea with attachment to the lateral eyelids. The cornea is thin and covered with fibrovascular tissue. (Waring GO, Shields JA: Partial unilateral Cryptophthalmos with syndactyly, brachycephaly, and renal anomalies. Am J Ophthalmol 79:437, 1975)