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Eyelid Laceration
- Complications
- Damage to lacrimal drainage system
- Eyelid notching
- Damage to levator muscle
- Management
- Globe may be perforated
- Cleansing wound only if sure that globe is intact
- Refer to Ophthalmology
- Exception: Small superficial, non-marginal wounds
Laceration of eyelid (C0339094) | |
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| Concepts | Injury or Poisoning (T037) |
| English | Laceration of eyelid |
| Spanish | laceracion del parpado, laceracion palpebral |
| Parent Concepts | Injury to eyelid (C0339089), Laceration of eye region (C0561237), Wound of ocular adnexa (C1264299), Facial laceration (C1299982), Duplicate concept (C1274013) |
| Sources | SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
