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The case report of a 20 year old woman illustrates the course of blepharochalasis. This disease was defined as an entity by E. Fuchs in 1896. It is characterized by relapsong edematous tumefaction and increasing relaxation of the eye lids with atrophy of the skin, blepharophimosis and emergence of a pseudoepicanthus. Folding of the oral mucosa in the upper lip, the so-called double lip, euthyroid struma, and, in later stages, orbital fat hernia and prolapse of the lacrimal gland, are further facultative symptoms. Partially, late stages of the disease had been described as Ascher- or Laffer-Ascher-Syndrome. This syndrome is no separate entity.
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PMID:[Blepharoachalasis (Fuchs) and the Laffer-Ascher syndrome]. 56 95

Herniation of the lacrimal gland is an unusual condition which has a predilection for blacks and is associated with blepharochalasis. It is benign and tends to become progressive. Either or both lobes of the lacrimal gland can herniate and must be differentiated from dermolipoma and orbital fat. A surgical treatment is described, and three cases are presented.
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PMID:Herniation of the lacrimal glands. 59 61

Herniation of the lacrimal gland is a condition that occurs unilaterally or bilaterally. Either or both lobes of the lacrimal gland may prolapse. Orbital lobe prolapse may be associated with blepharochalasis, a disease of puberty. We developed a surgical technique for the repair of prolapsed lacrimal glands. It is important to have adequate hemostasis and closure of the orbital septum.
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PMID:Surgical repair of prolapsed lacrimal glands. 62 40

Analysis of the records of the ophthalmologic pathoanatomic laboratory of the Kazakh Research Institute of Ophthalmic Diseases has shown that the incidence of developmental abnormalities due to disorders in the embryonal period and organogenesis have made up 3.7 percent of the total number of ocular tumors and 6.0 percent of benign tumors over the past 34 years. More than 60 percent of the patients with developmental defects were residents of South-Eastern Kazakhstan, equally frequently aborigens and representatives of other nationalities (41 and 43 patients, respectively), with male patients predominating (46 of 84 subjects). The patients' ages varied from 3 months to 70 years, children under 14 (50 patients) and young subjects aged 14 to 30 (24) prevailing. The most frequent developmental defects were dermoid cysts (61.9 percent) localized mainly in the orbit, less frequently dermoids and lipo-dermoids (20.2 percent) in the cornea, and dystrophic lacrimal gland in scleral conjunctiva (14.3 percent). Teratoma, brain hernia, and cystic eyes occurred in 1.2% of cases each; these conditions and dystopic lacrimal gland were histologically diagnosed.
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PMID:[Clinico-morphological characteristics of developmental defects of the eye]. 182 32

The incidence of ocular lesions in midfacial fractures ranges from 4 to 67%, depending on the criteria used in the previous examination. We report a retrospective study of 219 patients (233 fractures) who were admitted to our hospital between January 1990 and June 1994. The fractures are classified according to Henderson's classification (X-ray and Computed Tomography). We present the results of the ophthalmologic evaluation, after excluding palpebral lesions, and discuss the correlation with the etiology and the kind of fracture. The ocular lesions are divided into extraocular and intraocular ones. The extraocular lesions that we found are the following: damage to the lacrimal system, cranial nerve damage, displacement of the eye, corneal erosion and corneal foreign body and conjunctival lesions (subconjunctival hemorrhages, lacerations and chemosis). The intraocular lesions studied are divided into lesions of the anterior structures (hyphema, traumatic cataract, lens dislocation and hernia of the iris) and lesions of the posterior structures (vitreous and macular hemorrhage, eyeball perforation, optic nerve damage and Berlin's edema). Our conclusion is that comminuted fractures, fractures of the orbital rim only and those of the orbital floor are the most frequently associated with ocular damage, being mainly caused by automobile accidents and assaults.
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PMID:Ocular injuries in midfacial fractures. 1204 18