- Clinical features:
- Symptoms:
- Ocular motility disorders
- Diplopia
- Entropion
- Inadequate lids closure
- Signs: adhesion between bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva
- May occur as a complication of various ocular diseases such as:
dry eye syndrome, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, cicatricial pemphigoid,
chemical injury, erythema multiforme, pemphigus bullosa or as a complication
of chemical burn.
- Any conjunctival infections complicated with conjunctival
scaring may cause symblepharon; chlamydial conjunctivitis, vernal,
atopic, bacterial conjunctivitis and epidemic
keratoconjunctivitis.
- Management: may require oculoplastics procedure to release the symblepharon.
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