This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

EMANUEL GOLDBERGER, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1936;16(3):506-515.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Epicanthus is not a new or extremely rare condition, and one finds scattered through the literature reports of isolated cases.¹ It is my purpose in this paper not to offer a bibliographic review of epicanthus (the reader is referred to the work of Forster² and Brückner³ for good clinical reviews) but rather to present a critical analysis of the condition in the light of recent developments in the field and of my own clinical observations.

DEFINITION

I present the following material merely as a means of introducing the discussion of the subject, as I shall try to show that epicanthus is a far more complex condition than the simple description given leads one to believe: In the "American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Ophthalmology"⁴ epicanthus is described as follows:

a congenital deformity in which a fold of skin, with its concavity lateralwards extends from the side . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?