Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty

To report the first case of lacrimal gland fistula after upper eyelid blepharoplasty for blepharochalasis. Standard upper blepharoplasty and the hooding excision were performed in a female with blepharochalasis. The patient developed a fistulous tract with tearing from the incision few days after ho...

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Autores principales: Kashkouli, Mohsen Bahmani, Heirati, Abtin, Pakdel, Farzad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22224026
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.90139
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description To report the first case of lacrimal gland fistula after upper eyelid blepharoplasty for blepharochalasis. Standard upper blepharoplasty and the hooding excision were performed in a female with blepharochalasis. The patient developed a fistulous tract with tearing from the incision few days after hooding excision. Fistula excision and lacrimal gland repositioning were performed. There were no complications after the repositioning procedure (6 months follow up). Prolapsed lacrimal gland and fistula formation can occur after upper blepharoplasty hooding excision.
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spelling pubmed-32498232012-01-05 Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty Kashkouli, Mohsen Bahmani Heirati, Abtin Pakdel, Farzad Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report To report the first case of lacrimal gland fistula after upper eyelid blepharoplasty for blepharochalasis. Standard upper blepharoplasty and the hooding excision were performed in a female with blepharochalasis. The patient developed a fistulous tract with tearing from the incision few days after hooding excision. Fistula excision and lacrimal gland repositioning were performed. There were no complications after the repositioning procedure (6 months follow up). Prolapsed lacrimal gland and fistula formation can occur after upper blepharoplasty hooding excision. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3249823/ /pubmed/22224026 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.90139 Text en Copyright: © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty
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title_full Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty
title_fullStr Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty
title_full_unstemmed Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty
title_short Lacrimal Gland Fistula after Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty
title_sort lacrimal gland fistula after upper eyelid blepharoplasty
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249823/
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