Insights into levator muscle dysfunction in a cohort of patients with molecularly confirmed blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome using high-resolution imaging, anatomic examination, and histopathologic examination

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1564-1569

  Decock, Christian E ^a   De Baere, Elfride E ^a   Bauters, Wouter ^a   Shah, Akash D ^b   Delaey, Christophe ^a   Forsyth, Ramese ^a   Leroy, Bart P ^a   Kestelyn, Philippe ^a   Claerhout, Ilse ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Bombay City Eye Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS PTOSIS EPICANTHUS INVERSUS SYNDROME; CADAVER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICANTHUS; EYELID DISEASE; EYELID MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEVATOR PALPEBRAL SUPERIORIS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE RESECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENOPAUSE, PREMATURE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SKIN ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 83455244424     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.348     Document Type: Article

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