[Congenital ptosis associated with fatty infiltration of levator eyelid muscle].
OBJECTIVE
To quantify the fat in the levator muscle of patients with congenital ptosis, as related to clinical and epidemiological aspects of this disease.


METHODS
Twenty-two levator muscle samples of the superior eyelid from patients with congenital ptosis were morphometrically evaluated with aim of establishing a relationship between the fat quantity and age, sex, ptosis degree and levator muscle function.


RESULTS
According to our results the fat in the levator muscle of patients with congenital ptosis is not related to gender or epidemiologic aspects.


CONCLUSIONS
Fat amount in the levator muscle from congenital ptosis is not related to age, sex, ptosis degree or levator muscle function. Other studies will be necessary to show the real alterations in the levator muscle related to eyelid ptosis.
Leite
Cristiano Pinheiro
CP
Departamento de Oftalmologia, Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Schellini
Silvana Artioli
SA
Pellizzon
Cláudia Helena
CH
Marques
Mariângela Esther Alencar
ME
Padovani
Carlos Roberto
CR
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005143:Eyelids / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000473:pathology* / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery; D012737:Sex Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric