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Medical Mystery — One Brown Eye and One Blue Eye

Benjamin Gesundheit, M.D., Ph.D., and Mark Greenberg, M.D.

N Engl J Med 2005; 353:1502October 6, 2005

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A 10-year-old boy has a brown right eye and a blue left eye, as well as mild ptosis and miosis of his left eye. What is the condition he had at the age of 10 months?

Benjamin Gesundheit, M.D., Ph.D.
Mark Greenberg, M.D.
Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem 91120, Israel

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