blepharochalasis

Etiology

• idiopathic

Epidemiology

• more common in younger individuals

Pathology

• inflammation of the eyelid
• exacerbations & remissions of eyelid edema
• stretching with subsequent atrophy of the eyelid tissue
• nerve injury to the levator palpebrae superioris causes ptosis

Clinical manifestations

• painless recurrent upper eyelid edema
• formation of redundant folds over the lid margins
• thinning, stretching, & fine wrinkling of the eyelid skin
• ptosis
• typically affects only the upper eyelids
• unilateral or bilateral

Differential diagnosis

• eyelid cutis laxa

Management

• eye surgery

More general terms

• eyelid disease
• inflammation