Treating unilateral ptosis can be challenging and a proper preoperative evaluation may help prevent unexpected outcomes on the contralateral lid. Preoperative evaluation should include testing for Hering's law, which remains useful in understanding the phenomenon of induced contralateral eyelid retraction in the context of ptosis. Approximately 10% to 20% of patients with unilateral ptosis have...

A 35-year-old woman with brow spasms, treated in the past with Botox, was referred for increasing tightness in the brow. She reported having experienced an episode of difficulty focusing after a previous injection of Botox by another physician. The patient had no response to a subcutaneous injection consisting of 10 units of Botox above the eyebrows, nor to a subsequent injection of 20 units in...

neuroblastoma is a common tumor in pediatric cancer and which might present with usual or unusual clinical features. one of the rare clinical finding of neuroblastoma is paraneoplastic syndromes. we report a two year-old girl with presentation of bilateral ptosis and abdominal pain which was diagnosed as having neuroblastoma. our case is a very rare case of neuroblastoma accompanied by bilatera...

purpose : to determine the prevalence of ptosis and its correlation with vision-related variables in tehran population methods : through a stratified cluster random sampling, 160 clusters were selected proportional to the population of each municipal district of the city. all consented participants were transferred to the clinic and underwent thorough eye examination. here we report the prevale...

purpose: to assess the etiology, demography, surgical management and postoperative complications of ptosis in a referral ophthalmologic center. methods: we reviewed records of 233 ptosis patients managed at labbafinejad hospital during 1998-2003. etiology, age, sex, laterality, family history, amblyopia, past medical history, margin reflex distance and levator function, type of surgery, and pos...

Blepharoptosis (ptosis) is one of the most common eyelid disorders encountered in ophthalmology. A detailed history and exam are crucial in the evaluation of a patient presenting with ptosis. This provides the correct guidelines for surgical planning. The appropriate surgical technique is usually determined by the degree of ptosis and levator function. The surgeon should have an armamentarium o...

Aims: To describe the aetiology, demography, surgical management, and outcome of a cohort of paediatric ptosis patients in a large tertiary referral oculoplastic centre. Methods: A case note review of all patients undergoing ptosis surgery below the age of 16 years in a tertiary referral oculoplastic unit documenting the laterality, aetiology, severity of ptosis, indications for and type of sur...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the surgical and functional outcome of congenital ptosis repair and the anisometropic changes after surgical repair of ptosis to determine the potential contribution of anisometropia to the development of refractive amblyopia. METHODS The clinical records of 162 children with congenital ptosis that had been surgically repaired between 1995 and 2006 at the Goldschleger Ey...