PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | leprosy |
| Phenotype | C0152226|lagophthalmos |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 21434597 | Herein, we report three cases of bilateral lagophthalmos due to leprosy which presented to us within a span of just three months. |
| PubMedID- 24618488 | Soares and chew (1997) in their study on tmt in 51 patients of lagophthalmos due to leprosy, reported that the average lid gap preoperatively on light closure was 7.3 mm which was reduced to 3.2 mm on final follow-up, but complications like ectropion and ptosis were encountered in few eyes. |
| PubMedID- 22125936 | Objectives: temporalis muscle transfer (tmt) is a surgical technique used to correct lagophthalmos in leprosy patients. |
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