SUMMARY

A n epidemiological study by ophthalmoscopy of 1 076 children about 7 years of age revealed four subjects with anomalous elevation of the optic disc attributable to buried drusen. Superficial drusen were not seen in any of the children studied during this mass screening. Neuropaediatric examination revealed neurological disorders in all the four children with the anomaly. Thus, an anomalously elevated optic disc attributable to buried drusen is not rare among children. The presence of neurological symptoms and signs in the probands found by the author’s ophthalmoscopic screening study indicates neurological examination of children with drusen, whether or not the cause of the blurring of the optic disc has been difficult to assign.