Lipoid proteinosis, a rare autosomal recessive disorder, presents in early childhood with hoarseness, skin infiltration and thickening, beaded papules on eyelid margins, and facial acneiform or pock- like scars. Although

BACKGROUND Classical blepharoplasty removes supratarsal upper eyelid skin rather than subbrow skin. It does not adequately address the redundant skin of lateral hooding. Asians tend to have higher eyebrows than whites. For Asian women who have tattooed eyebrows with redundant upper lateral eyelid skin and who request a rejuvenating upper eyelid procedure, subbrow blepharoplasty (SBB) is an addi...

BACKGROUND Standard upper blepharoplasty involves removal of both the skin and a portion of the underlying orbicularis oculi muscle. The senior author had observed sluggishness of eyelid closure, lagophthalmos as well as varying degrees of eye irritation in certain patients during the early postoperative period. He postulated that these findings could be due to orbicularis muscle excision. He t...

RATIONALE Though giant malignant tumors arising in the eyelid are rare, they often require extensive surgery for removal along with orbital exenteration. Because of this, repairing orbital defects is an important factor in the surgical strategy. PATIENT CONCERNS Case 1 was a 78-year-old nomad man who presented in the Department of Ophthalmology with a giant tumor in his right eyelid, which ha...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcomes of eyelid reconstruction in patients who underwent full thickness skin grafts. METHODS A retrospective, noncomparative intervention study of patients who underwent periocular reconstruction with full thickness skin grafts between 2005 and 2011. RESULTS One hundred consecutive Caucasian patients were included in the study, 54 women and 46 men. Mean follow up ...

OBJECTIVE To report the histopathological diagnosis ofeyelid tumors and to study the prevalence of eyelid tumors in Chiang Mai University Hospital Chiang Mai, Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD A retrospective review of medical and pathological records ofpatients diagnosed as eyelid tumor that underwent histopathological biopsy between January 2007 and December 2013 in Chiang Mai University Hospit...

The author has refined his lower blepharoplasty technique with the goal of eliminating scleral show and residual skin while maintaining normal eyelid posture. His technique involves fat removal and/or modification through a transconjunctival approach, aligning the lower eyelid globe and canthus with a stitch canthopexy, and measured excision of redundant skin with mastery of the “pinch” techniq...