Blindness: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99).

  • Hereditary blindness (e.g., Leber’s congenital amaurosis).

Eyes and eye appendages (H00-H59).

  • Functional blindness (psychogenic blindness) – loss of vision without the ability to make objective findings.
  • Practical blindness

Injuries, poisonings and other consequences of external causes (S00-T98).

  • Actinic keratopathy or photokeratitis (snow blindness).
  • Blinding (sweat burn)