Abstract
The eyebrow and eyelashes are part of the normal aesthetic appearance of the face. The eyebrows participate in facial expression and are part of the individual identity. They also decrease sweat migration over the eyes. Disturbances of the eyebrows and eyelashes can be grouped as disorders of number and size, position, direction, pigmentation, texture, and location. There are probably several biochemical pathways that result either in hypertrichosis and hyperpigmentation or in poliosis and madarosis according their terminal melanotropic effect. The clinical disorders are specified in this chapter.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Albert and Jakobiec's Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology |
| Subtitle of host publication | Fourth Edition |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 5703-5720 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030426347 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030426330 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
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Keywords
- Acquired distichiasis
- Alopecia syndrome
- Blepharopigmentation
- Canities
- Cilia
- Congenital distichiasis
- Congenital poliosis
- Distichiasis
- Duplication supercilia
- Entropion
- Epiblepharon
- Eyebrow
- Eyelashes
- Glabella
- Hairline
- Hermansky-Pudlac syndrome
- Hurler's syndrome
- Hypertrichosis
- Hypopigmentation
- Madarosis
- Oliver-McFarlane syndrome
- Piebaldism
- Pili torti
- Poliosis
- Polytrichia
- Pretrichial brow
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Synophrys
- Tattooing
- Temtamy syndromes
- Trauma
- Trichiasis
- Trichomegaly
- Trichotillomania
- Vellus hairs
