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eyelid disease
Differential diagnosis:
1) inflammation/infection
a) local process
- chalazion
- rosacia
- dacrocystis
- hordeolum (sty)
- blepharitis
b) extension from the orbit: orbital cellulitis
2) tumor
3) common age-related ocular changes of the eyelids
a) contributing factors
- loss of orbital fat
- loss of muscle tone
- loss of elastic tissue
b) specific disorders
- ectropion
- entropion
- trichiasis
- meibomitis
- dermatochalasis
Related
eyelid (palpebra, palpebrae)
Specific
ablepharon
blepharedema; eyelid edema
blepharitis
blepharochalasis
blepharoptosis; ptosis; lid lag
chalazion; chalasia
ectropion
entropion
eyelid infection
eyelid neoplasm
eyelid xanthelasma
hypotrichosis
lagophthalmos
levator dehiscence
meibomitis (meibomianitis)
microblepharia
microblepharon
trichiasis
General
eye disease (ophthalmopathy)
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American
College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998
- Greater Los Angeles, GRECC, optometry