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  • Title: [Blepharoachalasis (Fuchs) and the Laffer-Ascher syndrome].
    Author: Mühlendyck H, Hundeiker M.
    Journal: Hautarzt; 1978 Sep; 29(9):474-7. PubMed ID: 567995.
    Abstract:
    The case report of a 20 year old woman illustrates the course of blepharochalasis. This disease was defined as an entity by E. Fuchs in 1896. It is characterized by relapsong edematous tumefaction and increasing relaxation of the eye lids with atrophy of the skin, blepharophimosis and emergence of a pseudoepicanthus. Folding of the oral mucosa in the upper lip, the so-called double lip, euthyroid struma, and, in later stages, orbital fat hernia and prolapse of the lacrimal gland, are further facultative symptoms. Partially, late stages of the disease had been described as Ascher- or Laffer-Ascher-Syndrome. This syndrome is no separate entity.
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