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Chalazion (Lump in Eyelid) (cont.)

Authors and Editors

Author: Andrew A. Dahl, MD, FACS, Residency Director, Ophthalmology, Kingston Hospital, Mid Hudson Family Practice Institute, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Department of Ophthalmology, the Institute for Family Health, New York College of Medicine

Editor: Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP

Previous contributing authors and editors:

Author: Matthew D Belden, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center.

Coauthor(s): Lance W Kreplick, MD, MMM, Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Regional Medical Center - Bayonet Point.

Editors: David T Wong, MD, FRCSC, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Robert H Graham, MD, Ophthalmologist, Robert H Graham, MD, PC; Affiliated With Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona and Carl T Hayden VA Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona.

REFERENCE:

Driver, Paul J., and Lemp, Michael A. "Meibomian Gland Dysfunction." Survey of Ophthalmology 40.5 Mar. 1996: 343-367.


Last Editorial Review: 10/14/2009




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A chalazion (Greek for hailstone) is a lipogranuloma of either a meibomian gland or a Zeis gland.

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