What's the difference between ectropion and entropion?
Ectropion
Definition:
(n.) An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.
Example Sentences:
(1) A good choice between these different approaches avoid the rare complications (ectropion and scleral show) because blepharoplasty must be considered like a "variable geometry" operation.
(2) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(3) Because of the anatomic variations of stricture or ectropion, the surgeon should master several of the techniques quoted here.
(4) The congenital iris ectropion syndrome does not clearly fit into this classification.
(5) Complications were tearing in four patients, inability to close the involved eye in three patients, corneal exposure in one patient, and ectropion in one patient.
(6) Indications for this technique include senile and paralytic ectropion, recurrent entropion, congenital malpositions, and lid laxity following trauma or enucleation.
(7) There were no cases of lid retraction, ectropion, entropion, inferior oblique palsy, or over excision of fat.
(8) Although the individual elements of our technique are well known to ophthalmic plastic surgeons and ophthalmologists, their combination into one procedure for use in severe cases of involutional (senile) ectropion has not been described.
(9) In some cases, the addition of a wedge tarsectomy or tarsal strip procedure to a blepharoplasty in association with careful technique and postoperative measures is important in prevention of postblepharoplasty ectropion.
(10) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
(11) The Wies procedure may be complicated by an overcorrection, which is in effect a cicatricial ectropion.
(12) Ectropion and scleral show are the most common complications following lower lid blepharoplasty.
(13) For skin excision cases, the pinch technique for raising the cuff of redundant skin of the lower lid has been found helpful, particularly in the older patient with latent senile ectropion.
(14) They are often asymptomatic but may induce discomfort, a sensation of fullness, a visible mass, lid distortion or ectropion.
(15) Our patient presented with multiple eruptive keratoacanthomas, ectropion and a mask-like face.
(16) An ectropion repair can then be combined with the blepharoplasty surgical operation.
(17) In the patients with simple total maxillectomy, cicatricial contracture of the facial skin and cicatricial ectropion of the lower eyelid were quite small, and in the patients with extended total maxillectomy, reconstructed facial skin did not give rise to cicatricial contracture.
(18) Disturbances such as ectropion, entropion and trichiasis may be regarded as the results of aims of breeding.
(19) If wearers of contact lenses present with secretion and incompatibility of the contact lens, simple ectropionation of the upper eyelids often is sufficient to diagnose a giant papillary conjunctivitis as the cause.
(20) It is useful to treat medial ectropions that have horizontal laxity along with cicatricial components and has successfully relieved this condition in eight patients.
Entropion
Definition:
(n.) Same as Entropium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its association with other systemic abnormalities is reviewed; the distinctions among distichiasis, trichiasis, entropion, and epiblepharon are outlined; and methods of treatment for distichiasis are described.
(2) Voluntary entropion, which has been reported only once before, was photographically documented in a 12-year-old girl.
(3) Surgical correction of the entropion resulted in a complete regression of all clinical signs.
(4) A chronic, progressive disease, CP is characterized by shrinkage of the conjunctiva, symblepharon, entropion, trichiasis, dry eye, and finally reduced vision from corneal opacification.
(5) Indications for this technique include senile and paralytic ectropion, recurrent entropion, congenital malpositions, and lid laxity following trauma or enucleation.
(6) There were no cases of lid retraction, ectropion, entropion, inferior oblique palsy, or over excision of fat.
(7) The remainder were for repair of cicatricial entropion, symblepharon, distichiasis, and irregularity of the eyelid margin.
(8) A 53-years-old patient was observed because of spastic entropion.
(9) Analysis of associated factors disclosed a positive relation between the amount of operative proptosis reduction and the degree of postoperative medial entropion.
(10) Medial entropion in this setting often coexists with lower eyelid retraction, and if a "spacer" of sclera or ear cartilage is to be inserted into the lower eyelid, it should be carried into the medialmost portion of the eyelid to recess the posterior lamellae, including the medial retractors, and allow the eyelid margin to return to its normal anatomic position.
(11) Bank sclera is used as a graft in the treatment of cicatricial entropion of the upper lid.
(12) Disturbances such as ectropion, entropion and trichiasis may be regarded as the results of aims of breeding.
(13) The orbicularis transplant with insertion at the infero-lateral border of the orbit was found to be the most effective procedure for re-operations for non-cicatricial entropion.
(14) In the evolution of senile entropion the structural changes in the orbicularis oculi muscle plays a decisive role, which leads to the malfunction of the muscle.
(15) Its long-term effectiveness confirms the view, not widely held, that one primary cause of involutional entropion is a shrunken and atrophic tarsal plate.
(16) Purified botulinum A exotoxin was used to treat 9 adults with strabismus, 22 adults with incapacitating essential blepharospasm and 1 adult with "senile" spastic lower-eyelid entropion.
(17) Botulinum toxin was used to treat senile entropion in 12 patients by injection into the preseptal orbicularis muscle of the lower lids.
(18) Congenital lower eyelid entropion is generally considered to result from improper development of the retractor aponeurosis insertion to the inferior portion of the tarsal plate.
(19) Senile entropion is a condition involving the lower lid due to aging.
(20) Lid margin splitting at the gray line with resection of the lash-bearing anterior lamella of the eyelid is a simple and effective treatment for cicatricial entropion and trichiasis.