Isolated ectopic cilia in an 11-year-old girl

Ectopic cilia (EC) are a very rare condition with only few cases reported in literature. Many associations were seen with ectopic cilia which include distichiasis, choristoma and aberrant lacrimal gland, hypochromic nevus, atopic eczema and others. We are reporting a case of an 11-year-old girl with...

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Autores principales: Zein, Hosny Ahmed, Moustafa, M. Tarek A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822435
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/oc000050
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description Ectopic cilia (EC) are a very rare condition with only few cases reported in literature. Many associations were seen with ectopic cilia which include distichiasis, choristoma and aberrant lacrimal gland, hypochromic nevus, atopic eczema and others. We are reporting a case of an 11-year-old girl with isolated left upper lid ectopic cilia, which was confirmed by surgical removal and histopathological study.
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spelling pubmed-50704822016-11-07 Isolated ectopic cilia in an 11-year-old girl Zein, Hosny Ahmed Moustafa, M. Tarek A. GMS Ophthalmol Cases Article Ectopic cilia (EC) are a very rare condition with only few cases reported in literature. Many associations were seen with ectopic cilia which include distichiasis, choristoma and aberrant lacrimal gland, hypochromic nevus, atopic eczema and others. We are reporting a case of an 11-year-old girl with isolated left upper lid ectopic cilia, which was confirmed by surgical removal and histopathological study. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2016-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5070482/ /pubmed/27822435 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/oc000050 Text en Copyright © 2016 Zein et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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