EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Oculoplastics
Diagnosis: senile/involutional entropion

Image Comments:

Senile entropion can have a spastic component, e.g. trichiasis causing corneal irritation.Irritation may cause the patient to squeeze his lids closed more vigorously with a further aggravaion of the entropion with its trichiasis.

 

 

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