Retractor plication for lower lid entropion in ocular cicatricial pemphigoid.

The surgical treatment of lower lid entropion in ocular cicatricial pemphigoid has previously met with limited success and conventional techniques have in some cases caused disease progression. We have treated lower lid entropion in this condition with retractor plication, avoiding surgery to the conjunctiva in five patients (seven eyelids) over the past five years with successful correction of the condition and symptomatic improvement in all patients. It has not led to an acute exacerbation of the condition in any patient and we recommend it as the procedure of choice in the surgical management of entropion in this disorder.