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A Young Boy With Lip Swelling and Wrinkled Eyelids—Quiz Case
Sunil Dogra, MD, DNB;
Sambit K. Mohanty, MD;
Rajesh Jain, MD;
Abir Saraswat, MD;
Uma Nahar Saikia, MD;
Sanjeev Handa, MD
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Arch Dermatol. 2003;139:1075-1080.
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REPORT OF A CASE
A 16-year-old boy presented with swelling of his lower lip and wrinkling of the skin over his eyelids that he had had since childhood. These complaints had developed progressively over the last 8 years, following recurrent episodes of edema of the lower lip and periorbital area. Over the years, the eyelid edema resolved and the eyelid skin appeared atrophic and redundant, whereas theswelling of the lip became more persistent. No other family member had similar complaints, and the patient did not have any systemic symptoms.
On physical examination, the lower lip was obviously enlarged, with a shallow transverse sulcus on the mucosal aspect, resulting in a "double lip" appearance (Figure 1). Eye examination showed marked bilateral blepharochalasis mainly involving the upper eyelids (Figure 2). Ocular . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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