Enophthalmia

Enophthalmia
Not to be confused with enophthalmos.

Enophthalmia is a medical term that describes eyes that are abnormally sunken into their sockets. This condition usually effects elderly persons. Surgery can be done to correct it. It is also the earliest warning sign of metastatic breast carcinoma.

External links

  • Camirand A, Doucet J, Harris J (November 1997). "Anatomy, pathophysiology, and prevention of senile enophthalmia and associated herniated lower eyelid fat pads". Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 100 (6): 1535–1546. doi:10.1097/00006534-199711000-00026. PMID 9385969. 
  • Gonçalves AC, Moura FC, Monteiro ML (July 2005). "Bilateral progressive enophthalmos as the presenting sign of metastatic breast carcinoma". Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 21 (4): 311–313. doi:10.1097/01.iop.0000167786.00697.0b. PMID 16052150. 

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  • syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

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