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Brushfield spots

Brushfield spots Speckled iris. Little white spots that slightly elevated on the surface of the iris arranged in a ring concentric with the pupil. These spots occur in normal children but are far more frequent in Down's syndrome . They were described in 1924 by Thomas Brushfield and are due to aggregation of a normal iris element.

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