These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Ptosis--clinical differential diagnosis].
    Author: Sturzenegger M.
    Journal: Schweiz Med Wochenschr; 1989 Oct 07; 119(40):1386-99. PubMed ID: 2552578.
    Abstract:
    When examining a patient with ptosis the first question to be answered is whether the condition is a simple constitutional variant or a symptom heralding disease. Local diseases of the eyelid may lead to pseudoptosis. The three major disease categories to be considered are: myopathies preferentially affecting the eye muscles; impaired neuromuscular impulse transmission at the motor endplate (myasthenia gravis, botulism); and lesions of the somatomotor (third cranial nerve) and visceromotor (sympathetic) nerve fibers innervating the eyelid muscles. The correct diagnosis may be suspected in the light of a detailed patient history and associated signs on general and neurological examination. Additional investigations may be needed to confirm the diagnosis.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]