"Blepharoptosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Drooping of the upper lid due to deficient development or paralysis of the levator palpebrae muscle.
Descriptor ID |
D001763
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MeSH Number(s) |
C11.338.204
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Concept/Terms |
Blepharoptosis- Blepharoptosis
- Blepharoptoses
- Ptosis, Eyelid
- Eyelid Ptoses
- Eyelid Ptosis
- Ptoses, Eyelid
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2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blepharoptosis" by people in Profiles.
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Deficiency for the ubiquitin ligase UBE3B in a blepharophimosis-ptosis-intellectual-disability syndrome. Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Dec 07; 91(6):998-1010.
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Apraxia of lid opening mimicking ptosis in compound heterozygosity for A467T and W748S POLG1 mutations. Mov Disord. 2008 Jul 15; 23(9):1286-8.
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[Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and Kearns-Sayre syndrome : interdisciplinary diagnosis and therapy]. Ophthalmologe. 2008 Jun; 105(6):550-6.
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[Diagnostic value of mitochondrial DNA analysis in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO)]. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 2004 Dec; 221(12):1057-61.
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Diagnostic value of mitochondrial DNA mutation analysis in juvenile unilateral ptosis. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2005 Apr; 243(4):380-2.