Ptosis

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Ptosis

• drooping of eyelid
• upper part of iris and pupil covered
• often overactivity of frontalis (wrinkled forehead)

Causes

• IIIrd Cranial Nerve Lesion
  • decreased eye movements
  • dilated pupil
• Horner's Syndrome
  • small reactive pupil
• Idiopathic
  • young women
• Myasthenia Gravis
  • complex eye movement disorders
• Dystrophia Myotonica
  • balding
  • cataracts
  • myotonia
• Mitochondrial diseases
  • variable neurological problems

Differential

• contralateral VIIth Nerve Palsy

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