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Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers

We aimed to microscopically examine whether Caucasian eyelids demonstrate overriding of preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle (OOM) over the pretarsal OOM in both lower and upper eyelids. Full thickness sections of 13 lower eyelids and 11 upper eyelids from seven Caucasian cadavers were examined. In th...

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Autores principales: Kakizaki, Hirohiko, Chan, Weng Onn, Takahashi, Yasuhiro, Selva, Dinesh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2708989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19668573
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author Kakizaki, Hirohiko
Chan, Weng Onn
Takahashi, Yasuhiro
Selva, Dinesh
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description We aimed to microscopically examine whether Caucasian eyelids demonstrate overriding of preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle (OOM) over the pretarsal OOM in both lower and upper eyelids. Full thickness sections of 13 lower eyelids and 11 upper eyelids from seven Caucasian cadavers were examined. In the lower eyelids, all 13 specimens demonstrated clear overriding of preseptal OOM over the pretarsal OOM. The overriding part extended almost to the level of lower eyelid margin. However, in the upper eyelids, only one of the 11 eyelids demonstrated overriding, and the overriding part only extended to the level of mid-tarsal plate. Our result strongly supports the hypothesis of overriding of the preseptal OOM over the pretarsal OOM as an etiology of involutional lower eyelid entropion. The relatively low frequency of upper eyelid overriding preseptal OOM in our study reflects and may explain the rare occurrence of involutional upper eyelid entropion.
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spelling pubmed-27089892009-08-10 Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers Kakizaki, Hirohiko Chan, Weng Onn Takahashi, Yasuhiro Selva, Dinesh Clin Ophthalmol Original Research We aimed to microscopically examine whether Caucasian eyelids demonstrate overriding of preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle (OOM) over the pretarsal OOM in both lower and upper eyelids. Full thickness sections of 13 lower eyelids and 11 upper eyelids from seven Caucasian cadavers were examined. In the lower eyelids, all 13 specimens demonstrated clear overriding of preseptal OOM over the pretarsal OOM. The overriding part extended almost to the level of lower eyelid margin. However, in the upper eyelids, only one of the 11 eyelids demonstrated overriding, and the overriding part only extended to the level of mid-tarsal plate. Our result strongly supports the hypothesis of overriding of the preseptal OOM over the pretarsal OOM as an etiology of involutional lower eyelid entropion. The relatively low frequency of upper eyelid overriding preseptal OOM in our study reflects and may explain the rare occurrence of involutional upper eyelid entropion. Dove Medical Press 2009 2009-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2708989/ /pubmed/19668573 Text en © 2009 Kakizaki et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd. This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kakizaki, Hirohiko
Chan, Weng Onn
Takahashi, Yasuhiro
Selva, Dinesh
Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers
title Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers
title_full Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers
title_fullStr Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers
title_full_unstemmed Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers
title_short Overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in Caucasian cadavers
title_sort overriding of the preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle in caucasian cadavers
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2708989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19668573
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