Surgical management of floppy eyelid syndrome.

Four patients (five eyes) with the classic findings of floppy eyelid syndrome all had chronic irritative symptoms, with papillary conjunctivitis, and a soft, rubbery, floppy, and easily everted upper eyelid. All affected eyes were treated surgically by a full-thickness eyelid shortening procedure which produced immediate relief of symptoms. Histopathologic study of the resected eyelids showed only an inflammatory infiltrate in the conjunctiva, but failed to identify specific cause for the lax tarsus.