title: [The role of senile enophthalmos in involutional entropion].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the role of senile enophthalmos in involutional entropion.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective clinical study comparing a population of 30 white patients above 65 years with involutional entropion (Group I) of an age- and race-matched control group (Group II). All age and exophthalmometric values were analyzed by a statistical study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average age was 77.7 years in Group I and 75.7 years in Group II. Eyes with involutional entropion are no more likely to have enophthalmos (15.22 mm) than is the involved contralateral eye (15.11 mm) or normal eyes of an age- and race-matched control group (15.13 mm).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is no correlation between involutional entropion and senile enophthalmos.
authors.affiliation: Setor de Plástica Ocular e órbita, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil. lopesdafonseca@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Nilson Lopes da
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Fonseca Junior
authors.forename: Lúcia Miriam Dumont
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lucci
authors.forename: José Ricardo Carvalho Lima
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rehder
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015841:Enophthalmos / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D004774:Entropion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies