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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 113-114 |
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Presumed floppy eyelid syndrome as the initial presentation of neurofibromatosis
Angelino Julio Cariello1, Giovanni André P. Viana2, Midori Hentona Osaki3, Ana Luisa Hofl ing Lima4
1 Post graduate student &xs#8211; Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo (SP) –, Brazil
2 Post graduate student – Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo (SP) –, Brazil
3 Head of the Oculoplastic division – Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo (SP) –, Brazil
4 Head professor of ophthalmology – Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo (SP) –, Brazil
Correspondence Address:
MD Angelino Julio Cariello
Sadalla Amin Ghanem Eye Hospital, Rua Abdon Batista Street 146 Centro, Joinville, SC 04023-062 Brazil
Brazil
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
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Floppy eyelid syndrome is an uncommon condition characterized by rubbery and loose upper eyelid that may evert spontaneously during sleep and result in a chronic papillary conjunctivitis. Neurofibromatosis type 1 is an autosomal phacomatosis that may affect the eyelid causing mechanical blepharoptosis and lid deformation. The authors describe a case of a 58-year-old man with no previous history of neurofibromatosis who presented a plexiform neurofibroma in the eyelid simulating floppy eyelid syndrome
Resumo
Síndrome da frouxidão palpebral é uma condição rara caracterizada pela presença de pálpebras superiores mais elásticas que podem everter espontaneamente durante o sono e resultar em uma conjuntivite papilar crônica. A neurofibromatose tipo 1 é uma facomatose autossômica que pode afetar a pálpebra causando blefaroptose mecânica e deformações. Os autores descrevem um caso de um homem de 58 anos de idade sem historia previa de neurofibromatose que apresenta-se com neurofibroma plexiforme da pálpebra simulando a síndrome da frouxidão palpebral.
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