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Clinical aspects of developmental entropion in Shar Pei dogs

The clinical aspects of entropion in puppies of the Shar Pei breed were studied using 50 animals, 18 to 128 day-old, that presented variable degrees of palpebral inversion and ocular lesions. The ocular lesions were classified according to a specific model. Photophobia, epiphora, palpebral margins inversion, blepharospasm, conjuntivitis, quemosis, corneal edema, erosion and vascularization and phthisis bulbi were observed.

dog; Shar Pei; palpebral diseases; entropion


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