Hypothesis: Septo-optic dysplasia is a vascular disruption sequence

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Septo-optic dysplasia, a variable combination of absence of the septum pellucidum, optic nerve hypoplasia, and pituitary abnormalities, makes little embryologic sense: components arise from different tissues and processes at different times, it is seen often with porencephaly, which is asymmetric, and rarely with other midline findings, genetic causes are exceptional, and occasional absence of the pituitary stalk...

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