Blepharochalasis with multiple system involvement.

نویسندگان

  • S Ghose
  • B R Kalra
  • Y Dayal
چکیده

A rare case of bilateral blepharochalasis of the upper eyelids is presented in a 10-year-old boy with several systemic abnormalities--unilateral agenesis of the left kidney, multiple skeletal anomalies of the vertebral column, and congenital heart disease with a left to right shunt. Such widespread congenital defects in association with blepharochalasis have not been described before. Blepharochalasis may represent a part of a more generalised disorder.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of ophthalmology

دوره 68 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1984