The objective of this study that Edwards, Kileny, and Van Riper presented was to provide detailed information regarding twenty-two individuals with a condition characterized by ocular coloboma, heart defects, atretic choanae, retarded growth, and ear anomalies or hearing loss, otherwise known as CHARGE syndrome. CHARGE syndrome may include other conditions not mentioned in the acronym that have been reported, such as orofacial clefts, facial palsy, vestibular anomalies, and trachea-esophageal atresia. Ear abnormalities in individuals with CHARGE syndrome may involve a short and/or wide pinna with an unusually small lobule, a hypoplastic helix, and a triangle-shaped concha. The external ear may appear to be rotated in a posterior position, as
