Eyelid ectropion occurs when the muscles around your eyelid weaken, causing the eyelid to turn outward and pull away from your eye. This condition is also called flipped eyelids or inverted eyelids.

In less severe ectropion, only one segment of the eyelid sags away from the eye. Artificial tears and lubricating ointments can help relieve symptoms of ectropion. But usually surgery is needed to ...

Harrison, MD. The plan must be based on anatomic abnormalities, Harrison said at Hawaiian Eye 2018. Whereas lower eyelid ectropion is an eversion of the eyelid margin, lower eyelid retraction is ...

Lee, MD, said at Hawaiian Eye 2017. Wendy W. Lee In cases of ectropion, “The lid is not well-closed to the globe, so you get tearing, foreign body sensation, exposure and conjunctival ...

Carter Bresee, who has two rare skin conditions called lamellar ichthyosis and ectropion, had been unable to close his eye lids since birth and could not blink. He required applications of special ...

The lateral tarsal strip (LTS) for involutional ectropion is often performed with ... we excluded the data from one eye on a random side to avoid bias. Patients who had undergone lower lid surgery ...